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- 1.The Histories of Herodotus8:07
- 2.Now it happened that this Candaules was in love…10:08
- 3.In this way he carried on the war with the Milesians…10:31
- 4.When all these conquests had been added…10:09
- 5.Now it chanced that while he was making…9:46
- 6.At the end of this time the grief of Croesus was…9:32
- 7.Of all the answers that had reached him…10:43
- 8.Such was the prophecy uttered under a divine…8:17
- 9.Such was the man’s account of what he had seen.8:31
- 10.Afterwards, on the refusal of Alyattes to give up his...10:17
- 11.Thus the siege began. Meanwhile Croesus, thinking…10:14
- 12.Then, the Lydians say that Croesus…10:38
- 13.The Lydians have very nearly the same customs...11:39
- 14.The distance from Lake Maeotis to the river Phasis…12:05
- 15.When the boy was in his tenth year…13:02
- 16.Afterwards, when Cyrus grew to manhood…8:41
- 17.Thus after a reign of thirty-five years, Astyages…10:53
- 18.Immediately after the conquest of Lydia…10:02
- 19.These, then, were all the Aeolian cities…10:45
- 20.Meanwhile Mazares, after he had recovered Pactyas…11:41
- 21.The Caunians, in my judgment, are dwellers there…8:25
- 22.The city is divided into two portions by the river…7:33
- 23.She gave orders for the hewing of immense blocks…7:17
- 24.Among many proofs which I shall bring forward…8:32
- 25.The Babylonians have one most shameful custom.8:34
- 26.Now concerning the matter in hand, my judgment…10:20
- 27.Book Two: Euterpe8:30
- 28.From Heliopolis to Thebes is nine days’ sail…10:27
- 29.My judgment as to the extent of Egypt is confirmed…10:20
- 30.No other information on this head could I obtain…9:23
- 31.Concerning Egypt itself I shall extend my remarks…9:27
- 32.Such Egyptians as possess a temple of the Theban…10:41
- 33.Almost all the names of the gods came into Greece…10:44
- 34.At Heliopolis and Buto the assemblies…12:06
- 35.In the neighbourhood of Thebes…12:32
- 36.The Egyptians are averse to adopt Greek customs…9:42
- 37.The former of these two cities…10:03
- 38.The king then returned to his own land…11:27
- 39.In these places Homer shows himself acquainted…11:10
- 40.When it came to the king’s ears that the thief’s body…10:13
- 41.After Chephren, Mycerinus (they said), son of…9:46
- 42.He was succeeded on the throne…11:14
- 43.It is open to all to receive whichever he may prefer…12:32
- 44.I have already made mention more than once…11:39
- 45.The cantons of the Calascirians are different…11:01
- 46.To the other temples of much note…6:13
- 47.Book Three: Thalia11:41
- 48.On the field where this battle was fought...12:38
- 49.The Icthyophagoi on reaching this people…11:38
- 50.And now Cambyses, who even before had not been…10:43
- 51.Many other wild outrages of this sort did Cambyses…11:59
- 52.The Corinthians likewise very willingly lent…11:09
- 53.This was the first expedition into Asia…10:21
- 54.At this time he said no more; but twenty days…10:44
- 55.Otanes, when he saw Darius so hot…10:05
- 56.And now when five days were gone…10:05
- 57.And now, when the morning broke, the six Persians…10:51
- 58.The way in which the Indians get the plentiful…9:32
- 59.Now with respect to the vipers and the winged…8:02
- 60.Of the seven Persians who rose up…8:28
- 61.Polycrates, however, making light of all the counsel…10:54
- 62.On these terms Democedes applied his art…9:11
- 63.Poor Syloson felt at the time that he had given…10:09
- 64.After the armament of Otanes had set sail…11:14
- 65.Book Four: Melpomene9:39
- 66.Hereupon he strung one of his bows — up to that…9:40
- 67.Crossing the Panticapes, and proceeding eastward…8:29
- 68.To me it seems that the cold may likewise…6:45
- 69.The Persians inhabit a country upon the southern…9:04
- 70.The Euxine sea, where Darius now went to war…9:30
- 71.The sixth stream is the Hypacyris, a river rising…10:01
- 72.Whenever the Scythian king falls sick…11:21
- 73.Scylas, likewise, the son of Ariapithes…9:47
- 74.The manner in which these distances…9:01
- 75.I for my part neither put entire faith in this story…8:57
- 76.The manners of the Androphagi are more savage…7:52
- 77.The Sauromatae speak the language of Scythia…9:55
- 78.To this message Idanthyrsus, the Scythian king…10:14
- 79.The Ionians now held a council.10:20
- 80.Theras now, having with him a certain number…9:11
- 81.Battus, you came to ask of your voice; but Phoebus…9:13
- 82.At Samos, meanwhile, Arcesilaüs was collecting…8:55
- 83.On the country of the Nasamonians borders…10:42
- 84.As far as the Atlantes the names of the nations…9:05
- 85.The Carthaginians also relate the following…9:06
- 86.Book Five: Terpsichore9:42
- 87.King Darius was full of wonder both at what they…10:25
- 88.Now that the men of this family are Greeks, sprung…9:30
- 89.So Aristagoras went to Sardis and told Artaphernes…9:25
- 90.Now the Mytileneans had no sooner got Coës…9:07
- 91.Cleomenes, however, was still king when Aristagoras…9:15
- 92.When Aristagoras left Sparta he hastened to Athens…9:33
- 93.By descent they were Pylians, of the family…10:27
- 94.Meanwhile Cleomenes, who considered himself…11:14
- 95.Such is the account given by the Athenians.10:41
- 96.The Bacchiadae had possessed this oracle for some…9:41
- 97.On the return of Hippias to Asia from Lacedaemon…9:11
- 98.While Onesilus was engaged in the siege…8:11
- 99.In the thick of the fight, Stesanor, tyrant…8:45
- 100.Book Six: Erato7:37
- 101.Thus spake the Persians. The Ionian tyrants…8:51
- 102.Such a fate now befell the Milesians…7:39
- 103.Histiaeus now led a numerous army…8:02
- 104.When he had finished carrying the wall across…9:03
- 105.The year after these events, Darius received…9:56
- 106.Such are their privileges in war…9:05
- 107.In course of time Ariston died…10:22
- 108.Afterwards, when it came to be known what evil…12:13
- 109.When however he reached that city…9:22
- 110.Afterwards the Aeginetans fell upon the Athenian…10:03
- 111.First he was chased as far as Imbrus…8:59
- 112.Miltiades by these words gained Callimachus…10:13
- 113.Now the Alcmaeonidae fell in no way short…10:50
- 114.After the defeat inflicted at Marathon…10:57
- 115.Book Seven: Polymnia7:41
- 116.‘Persians, I shall not be the first to bring in…’6:38
- 117.When Mardonius had in this way softened…10:16
- 118.But when night came, again the same vision stood…11:26
- 119.Now the manner in which they dug…10:36
- 120.Then they, whose business it was…10:17
- 121.Then Artabanus, the king’s uncle…10:20
- 122.On the next day the horsemen began the passage…8:28
- 123.The Sarangians had dyed garments…7:25
- 124.Such were the nations who fought upon the dry…7:16
- 125.(vi.) The Lycians furnished fifty ships.7:53
- 126.‘O king! Since you ask me by all means…’9:33
- 127.The Satrae, so far as our knowledge goes…10:49
- 128.On reaching Therma Xerxes halted his army…9:39
- 129.This conduct on the part of the Spartans…9:28
- 130.Themistocles had before this given a counsel which…9:36
- 131.For my own part I cannot positively say whether…9:48
- 132.Hereupon Gelo, seeing the indignation…10:00
- 133.The Cretans, when the envoys sent to ask aid…8:36
- 134.At Alpeni, which is lower down than that place…10:25
- 135.The fleet then, as I said, on leaving Therma…10:36
- 136.At the point where this city is built…10:27
- 137.Then the Medes, having met so rough a reception…9:22
- 138.The remembrance of this answer, I think…10:45
- 139.Thus fought the Greeks at Thermopylae.7:58
- 140.Book Eight: Urania9:09
- 141.The Greeks, at a signal, brought the sterns of…9:01
- 142.And now Themistocles chose out the swiftest sailers…9:00
- 143.From Doris they marched forward into Phocis…9:45
- 144.From the mainland of Greece beyond…10:52
- 145.As soon as they had come, and before Eurybiades…9:28
- 146.Reinforced by the contingents of all these various…9:32
- 147.‘The Athenian commander has sent me to you…’9:03
- 148.Far the greater number of the Persian ships…8:33
- 149.The Athenians say that Adeimantus, the Corinthian…9:25
- 150.Thus did the king ask Artemisia’s counsel…10:01
- 151.At present, however, he dissembled…8:19
- 152.The Persians, having journeyed through Thrace…9:16
- 153.When this town had fallen, Artabazus pressed…10:15
- 154.Mardonius, when he had read the answers given…14:23
- 155.Book Nine: Calliope7:58
- 156.At last the ambassadors got an answer…7:44
- 157.What follows was recounted to me by Thersander…9:51
- 158.When the cavalry reached the camp…10:01
- 159.All these, except the Helots — seven of whom…8:29
- 160.With Mardonius also, who was very eager to begin…8:41
- 161.After Mardonius had put his question about…9:22
- 162.As soon as Pausanias saw a portion of the troops…9:33
- 163.As Pausanias offered his prayer, the Tegeans…8:28
- 164.On the side of the barbarians, the greatest courage…7:27
- 165.There was a man at Plataea among the troops…7:07
- 166.The Greeks, after sharing the booty upon the field…8:02
- 167.A strange thing happened to this man’s father…7:35
- 168.After Leotychides had made this address…8:31
- 169.The barbarians who escaped from the battle...8:52
- 170.Meanwhile the Greeks, who had left Mycale…8:26