Histories
Herodotus
Herodotus. Godley, Alfred Denis, translator. Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann, Ltd., 1920-1925 (printing).
And in my opinion it is for this reason that the hornless kind of cattle grow no horns in Scythia (region (general)), AsiaScythia. A verse of Homer in the Odyssey attests to my opinion:
Hom. Od. 4.85in which it is correctly observed that in hot countries the horns grow quickly, whereas in very cold countries beasts hardly grow horns, or not at all.
- “Libya [17,25] (nation), AfricaLibya, the land where lambs are born with horns on their foreheads,”