Histories

This, however, I know full well, namely if all men should carry their own private troubles to market for barter with their neighbors, there would not be a single one who, when he had looked into the troubles of other men, would not be glad to carry home again what he had brought.[*](The general idea,—rather obscurely expressed,—seems to be that some who judge the Argives harshly have really just as many kaka/ and ai)sxra/ (which Herodotus appears to confuse) of their own.)