Herodotus is like, Truth is fluid, let's not get too fussy about the details.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alcibiades: canonically irresistable.] Reference

This custom seems to have worked very well and Herodotus is full of enthusiasm for it.    From Wordnik.com.  [As I Please] Reference

But Herodotus is now urgently useful for reasons that rise above mere entertainment and exotica.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Historian For Our Time] Reference

The earliest known written description of an artificial limb appears in Herodotus's The Histories, written in 484 B.C.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prosthetics] Reference

And he called Herodotus a thief and a beguiler, and “the same with intent to deceive,” as one of their own poets writes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters to Dead Authors] Reference

The comparison of two passages in Herodotus, (l.i. c. 192, l. iii.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire] Reference

Owing to these qualities, and also to the fact that he was the first writer of Bohemian history, he is called the Herodotus of Bohemia.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery] Reference

I like the idea of Herodotus being Spartan :- Are there contemporary sources that contradict each other, or is it mostly later authors?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dating the Battle of Chester] Reference

Herodotus is not credulous.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Historian For Our Time] Reference

Hophra -- in Herodotus called Apries.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference

Herodotus is coming up on my reading list.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Dragons and other Mythical Beasts by Joseph Nigg] Reference

To read Voltaire's "Herodotus" is somewhat convincing, but.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance] Reference

It was once the fashion to speak of Herodotus as a credulous man, who embodied the most improbable, though interesting stories.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization.] Reference

About the only direct testimony in its favour is found in the fragmentary statements of some ancient writers, such as Herodotus and.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy] Reference

"Close to Aristarchus you will notice another ring-plain, which is called Herodotus, about twenty-three miles in diameter, with a floor.    From Wordnik.com.  [To Mars via The Moon An Astronomical Story] Reference

Up to a century and a half ago our information concerning Arabia was based mainly on Greek and Latin writers, such as Herodotus, Strabo.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize] Reference

Herodotus has given an interesting description of them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference

Herodotus, at some of whose stories we smile, was a wiser man.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference

The earliest mention of the hippopotamus is in Herodotus, who in ii.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 33, June 15, 1850] Reference

Like Herodotus, Strabo had travelled himself from Armenia and western.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference

Like Herodotus, he became a traveller in order to become an historian.    From Wordnik.com.  [Classic French Course in English] Reference

Like Herodotus, he was cosmopolite enough not to be narrowly patriotic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Classic French Course in English] Reference

Herodotus makes some astounding statements about various parts of the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference

He is delightfully like Herodotus in the style and the spirit of his narrative.    From Wordnik.com.  [Classic French Course in English] Reference

Right across the desolate sandy desert of the north, Herodotus seems to have made his way.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference

Hippocrates, the celebrated Greek physician, was a contemporary of the historian Herodotus.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference

Herodotus, Aristotle, and the other Greek writers constantly call this animal ~hippos potamios~.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 33, June 15, 1850] Reference

But history proper, right from Herodotus 'start, has always been a debate between past and present.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Battle of Long-Running Interest] Reference

Herodotus, however, had doubtless obtained his account of the hippopotamus during his visit to Egypt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 33, June 15, 1850] Reference

Herodotus would expect this question to be answered in accordance with the prejudices of the person giving the answer.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference

He was probably the same as is called Dejoces by Herodotus; to whom he attributes the building of Ecbatana, the capital city of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 18: Judith The Challoner Revision] Reference

Herodotus speaks, who put out the eyes of their slaves in order that nothing might distract their attention from their work.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

But it is well to bear in mind what Herodotus said about the madness of Cambyses, and the prejudice men have in favor of their own customs.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference