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

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CXI. As for cinnamon, they gather it in an even stranger way. Where it comes from and what land produces it they cannot say, except that it is reported, reasonably enough, to grow in the places where Dionysus was reared. [2] There are great birds, it is said, that take these dry sticks which we have learned from the Phoenicians to call cinnamon and carry them off to nests stuck with mud to precipitous cliffs, where man has no means of approach. [3] The Arabian solution to this is to cut dead oxen and asses and other beasts of burden into the largest possible pieces, then to set these near the eyries and withdraw far off. The birds then fly down (it is said) and carry the pieces of the beasts up to their nests, while these, not being able to bear the weight, break and fall down the mountain side, and then the Arabians come and gather them up. Thus is cinnamon said to be gathered, and so to come from Arabia to other lands.

Further comments from W. W. How, J. Wells, A Commentary on Herodotus:
book 3 (general note)
book 3, chapter 111 (general note)
book 3, chapter 111, section 1: en toisi ho Dionusos
book 3, chapter 111, section 2: ornithas

Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
465 [Gebrauch des Artikels bei Pronomen und Zahlwörtern mit und ohne Substantiv.]

Cross references from Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898):
nysa [Nysa]

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