Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley)

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LIII. But whence each of the gods came to be, or whether all had always been, and how they appeared in form, they did not know until yesterday or the day before, so to speak; [2] for I suppose Hesiod and Homer flourished not more than four hundred years earlier than I; and these are the ones who taught the Greeks the descent of the gods, and gave the gods their names, and determined their spheres and functions, and described their outward forms. [3] But the poets who are said to have been earlier than these men were, in my opinion, later. The earlier part of all this is what the priestesses of Dodona tell; the later, that which concerns Hesiod and Homer, is what I myself say.

Further comments from W. W. How, J. Wells, A Commentary on Herodotus:
book 2 (general note)
book 2, chapter 53 (general note)
book 2, chapter 53, section 2: epônumias
book 2, chapter 53, section 3: proteron
book 2, chapter 53, section 3: ta prôta

Cross references from Perseus Encyclopedia:
homer [Importance and Influence of the Homeric Poems]

Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Antigone:
* [376-581]: mechri hou prôên te kai chthes

Cross references from Walter Leaf, Commentary on the Iliad (1900):
2, 303 [Book 2 (B)]

Cross references from William Watson Goodwin, Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb:
685 [Infinitive in Indirect Discourse.]
807 [Simple Infinitive and Infinitive with tou, after Verbs of Hindrance, etc.]

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Herodotus, with an English translation by A. D. Godley. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1920.
OCLC: 1610641
ISBN: 0674991303, 0674991311, 0674991338, 0674991346

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