David Timson

Histories

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Release date 2016

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The Histories of Herodotus
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Now it happened that this Candaules was in love…
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In this way he carried on the war with the Milesians…
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When all these conquests had been added…
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Now it chanced that while he was making…
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At the end of this time the grief of Croesus was…
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Of all the answers that had reached him…
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Such was the prophecy uttered under a divine…
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Such was the man’s account of what he had seen.
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Afterwards, on the refusal of Alyattes to give up his...
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Thus the siege began. Meanwhile Croesus, thinking…
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Then, the Lydians say that Croesus…
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The Lydians have very nearly the same customs...
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The distance from Lake Maeotis to the river Phasis…
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When the boy was in his tenth year…
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Afterwards, when Cyrus grew to manhood…
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Thus after a reign of thirty-five years, Astyages…
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Immediately after the conquest of Lydia…
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These, then, were all the Aeolian cities…
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Meanwhile Mazares, after he had recovered Pactyas…
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The Caunians, in my judgment, are dwellers there…
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The city is divided into two portions by the river…
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She gave orders for the hewing of immense blocks…
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Among many proofs which I shall bring forward…
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The Babylonians have one most shameful custom.
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Now concerning the matter in hand, my judgment…
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Book Two: Euterpe
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From Heliopolis to Thebes is nine days’ sail…
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My judgment as to the extent of Egypt is confirmed…
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No other information on this head could I obtain…
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Concerning Egypt itself I shall extend my remarks…
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Such Egyptians as possess a temple of the Theban…
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Almost all the names of the gods came into Greece…
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At Heliopolis and Buto the assemblies…
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In the neighbourhood of Thebes…
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The Egyptians are averse to adopt Greek customs…
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The former of these two cities…
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The king then returned to his own land…
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In these places Homer shows himself acquainted…
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When it came to the king’s ears that the thief’s body…
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After Chephren, Mycerinus (they said), son of…
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He was succeeded on the throne…
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It is open to all to receive whichever he may prefer…
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I have already made mention more than once…
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The cantons of the Calascirians are different…
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To the other temples of much note…
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Book Three: Thalia
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On the field where this battle was fought...
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The Icthyophagoi on reaching this people…
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And now Cambyses, who even before had not been…
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Many other wild outrages of this sort did Cambyses…
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The Corinthians likewise very willingly lent…
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This was the first expedition into Asia…
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At this time he said no more; but twenty days…
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Otanes, when he saw Darius so hot…
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And now when five days were gone…
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And now, when the morning broke, the six Persians…
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The way in which the Indians get the plentiful…
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Now with respect to the vipers and the winged…
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Of the seven Persians who rose up…
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Polycrates, however, making light of all the counsel…
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On these terms Democedes applied his art…
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Poor Syloson felt at the time that he had given…
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After the armament of Otanes had set sail…
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Book Four: Melpomene
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Hereupon he strung one of his bows — up to that…
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Crossing the Panticapes, and proceeding eastward…
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To me it seems that the cold may likewise…
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The Persians inhabit a country upon the southern…
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The Euxine sea, where Darius now went to war…
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The sixth stream is the Hypacyris, a river rising…
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Whenever the Scythian king falls sick…
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Scylas, likewise, the son of Ariapithes…
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The manner in which these distances…
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I for my part neither put entire faith in this story…
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The manners of the Androphagi are more savage…
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The Sauromatae speak the language of Scythia…
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To this message Idanthyrsus, the Scythian king…
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The Ionians now held a council.
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Theras now, having with him a certain number…
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Battus, you came to ask of your voice; but Phoebus…
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At Samos, meanwhile, Arcesilaüs was collecting…
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On the country of the Nasamonians borders…
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As far as the Atlantes the names of the nations…
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The Carthaginians also relate the following…
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Book Five: Terpsichore
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King Darius was full of wonder both at what they…
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Now that the men of this family are Greeks, sprung…
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So Aristagoras went to Sardis and told Artaphernes…
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Now the Mytileneans had no sooner got Coës…
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Cleomenes, however, was still king when Aristagoras…
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When Aristagoras left Sparta he hastened to Athens…
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By descent they were Pylians, of the family…
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Meanwhile Cleomenes, who considered himself…
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Such is the account given by the Athenians.
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The Bacchiadae had possessed this oracle for some…
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On the return of Hippias to Asia from Lacedaemon…
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While Onesilus was engaged in the siege…
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In the thick of the fight, Stesanor, tyrant…
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Book Six: Erato
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Thus spake the Persians. The Ionian tyrants…
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Such a fate now befell the Milesians…
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Histiaeus now led a numerous army…
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When he had finished carrying the wall across…
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The year after these events, Darius received…
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Such are their privileges in war…
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In course of time Ariston died…
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Afterwards, when it came to be known what evil…
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When however he reached that city…
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Afterwards the Aeginetans fell upon the Athenian…
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First he was chased as far as Imbrus…
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Miltiades by these words gained Callimachus…
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Now the Alcmaeonidae fell in no way short…
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After the defeat inflicted at Marathon…
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Book Seven: Polymnia
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‘Persians, I shall not be the first to bring in…’
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When Mardonius had in this way softened…
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But when night came, again the same vision stood…
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Now the manner in which they dug…
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Then they, whose business it was…
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Then Artabanus, the king’s uncle…
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On the next day the horsemen began the passage…
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The Sarangians had dyed garments…
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Such were the nations who fought upon the dry…
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(vi.) The Lycians furnished fifty ships.
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‘O king! Since you ask me by all means…’
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The Satrae, so far as our knowledge goes…
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On reaching Therma Xerxes halted his army…
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This conduct on the part of the Spartans…
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Themistocles had before this given a counsel which…
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For my own part I cannot positively say whether…
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Hereupon Gelo, seeing the indignation…
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The Cretans, when the envoys sent to ask aid…
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At Alpeni, which is lower down than that place…
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The fleet then, as I said, on leaving Therma…
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At the point where this city is built…
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Then the Medes, having met so rough a reception…
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The remembrance of this answer, I think…
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Thus fought the Greeks at Thermopylae.
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Book Eight: Urania
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The Greeks, at a signal, brought the sterns of…
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And now Themistocles chose out the swiftest sailers…
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From Doris they marched forward into Phocis…
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From the mainland of Greece beyond…
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As soon as they had come, and before Eurybiades…
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Reinforced by the contingents of all these various…
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‘The Athenian commander has sent me to you…’
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Far the greater number of the Persian ships…
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The Athenians say that Adeimantus, the Corinthian…
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Thus did the king ask Artemisia’s counsel…
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At present, however, he dissembled…
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The Persians, having journeyed through Thrace…
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When this town had fallen, Artabazus pressed…
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Mardonius, when he had read the answers given…
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Book Nine: Calliope
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At last the ambassadors got an answer…
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What follows was recounted to me by Thersander…
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When the cavalry reached the camp…
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All these, except the Helots — seven of whom…
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With Mardonius also, who was very eager to begin…
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After Mardonius had put his question about…
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As soon as Pausanias saw a portion of the troops…
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As Pausanias offered his prayer, the Tegeans…
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On the side of the barbarians, the greatest courage…
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There was a man at Plataea among the troops…
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The Greeks, after sharing the booty upon the field…
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A strange thing happened to this man’s father…
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After Leotychides had made this address…
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The barbarians who escaped from the battle...
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Meanwhile the Greeks, who had left Mycale…
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