I am going to talk at some length about Egypt, because it has very many remarkable features and has produced more monuments which beggar description than anywhere else in the world.
More from Herodotus
It was a kind of Cadmean victory.
Permalink to quote #5 From great wrongdoing there are great punishments from the gods.
Permalink to quote #7 In peace sons bury fathers, but in war fathers bury sons.
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