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Herodotus · Histories 1.0 (proem)

Ancient Greek · Level 3 · ~1 min

Lest Great Deeds Fade

Herodotus, Histories 1.0 (proem)

Ἡροδότου Ἁλικαρνησσέος ἱστορίης ἀπόδεξις ἥδε, ὡς μήτε τὰ γενόμενα ἐξ ἀνθρώπων τῷ χρόνῳ ἐξίτηλα γένηται, μήτε ἔργα μεγάλα τε καὶ θωμαστά, τὰ μὲν Ἕλλησι τὰ δὲ βαρβάροισι ἀποδεχθέντα, ἀκλεᾶ γένηται, τά τε ἄλλα καὶ δι’ ἣν αἰτίην ἐπολέμησαν ἀλλήλοισι.

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Herodotus, Histories 1.0 (proem). Source text. CC BY-SA 4.0. Perseus Digital Library (Tufts University), PerseusDL/canonical-greekLit; edition: A. D. Godley, Loeb 1920. Word analyses are machine-generated, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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