Histories

Herodotus

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

The ancient wall had been built long ago and most of it lay in ruins; those who built it up again thought that they would in this way bar the foreigner's way into Greece [22,39] (nation), EuropeHellas. Very near the road is a village called Alpeni, and it is from here that the Greeks expected to obtain provisions.