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Title: The History of Herodotus -- Volume 1
Author: Herodotus
Translator: G. C. Macaulay
Release date: July 1, 2001 [eBook #2707]
Most recently updated: May 23, 2025
Language: English
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THE HISTORY OF HERODOTUS
By Herodotus
Translated into English by G. C. Macaulay
IN TWO VOLUMES
VOLUME I.
{e Herodotou diathesis en apasin epieikes, kai tois men agathois sunedomene, tois de kakois sunalgousa}.--Dion. Halic.
{monos 'Erodotos 'Omerikhotatos egeneto}.--Longinus.
PREPARER'S NOTE
This text was prepared from an edition dated 1890, published by
MacMillan and Co., London and New York.
Greek text has been transliterated and marked with brackets, as in the opening citation above.
PREFACE
If a new translation of Herodotus does not justify itself, it wil…