Histories

Herodotus

Herodotus. Godley, Alfred Denis, translator. Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann, Ltd., 1920-1925 (printing).

They call themselves colonists from Media. How this has come about I myself cannot understand, but all is possible in the long passage of time. However that may be, we know that the Ligyes who dwell inland of +Marseilles [5.366,43.3] (inhabited place), Bouches-du-Rhone, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France, Europe Massalia use the word “sigynnae” for hucksters, and the Cyprians use it for spears.