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3134 from Greek and Roman Materials

1. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD) alphabetic letter G
   This description corresponds exactly to what Mela (i. 8) and Pliny (v. 8) say of a people whom they call Gamphasantes; and hence some critics have proposed to alter the reading in Herodotus: but, besides the fact that there is not a shadow of variation in the MSS., the position assigned by Herodotus to this people is precisely that occupied by the Garamantes; and the same statements are repeated by later geographers, expressly on the authority of Herodotus. (20.56)

2. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD) alphabetic letter A
   copied from the above statements of Herodotus, with the addition of what Herodotus affirms in the second passage of the Atlantes (where the name is right), that they saw no visions in their sleep. (15.21)

3. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD) alphabetic letter A
   Niebuhr (Kleine Schriften, vol. i. p. 377) regards the Agathyrsi of Herodotus, or at least the people who occupied the position assigned to them by Herodotus, as the same people as the Getae or Dacians (Ukert, vol.iii.pt. 2, pp. 418--421; Georgii,vol. ii.pp. 302, 303; Ritter, Vorhalle, pp. 287, foll. (15.21)

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6 from Renaissance Materials

1. Alexander Dyce, A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works alphabetic letter R, entry Rhodope's
   Herodotus (ii. 134 et seq. (2.36)

2. Sir Philip Sidney, Defence of Poesie paragraph 27
   Herodotus and Iustin doth both testifie, that Zopirus, King Darius faithfull seruant, seeing his maister long resisted by the rebellious Babilonians, fained himselfe in extreame disgrace of his King, for verifying of which, he caused his owne nose and eares to be cut off, and so flying to the Babylonians was receiued, and for his knowne valure so farre creadited, that hee did finde meanes to deliuer them ouer to Darius. (2.24)

3. Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation
   Yet farther, imagine that they did avouch them, were they not to be pardoned as well as Herodotus, Strabo, Plutarch, Plinie, Solinus, yea & a great many of our new principall writers, whose names you may see about the end of this Preface; every one of which hath reported more strange things then the Friers between them both? (1.97)

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1 from The Tragedie of Anthonie, and Cleopatra

1. Critical Commentary act 3, scene 2, commline 14
   Herodotus, Lib. ii, cap. 73. (4.30)

1 from The Tragedie of Coriolanus

1. William Shakespeare, Critical Commentary: The Tragedie of Coriolanus (ed. Horace Howard Furness, Jr., A. B.; Litt. D.) act 3, scene 1, commline 322
   . affirmed by Herodotus, Nicander, Pliny, Plutarch. (1.44)

23 from The Bolles Collection on the History of London

1. Sidney Lee, Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome alphabetic letter D, entry 8991
   classical scholar; of humble origin; M.A. and professor of Greek, Edinburgh, 1807-51; edited Herodotus, 1806-7; endeavoured to derive Sanscrit from Greek, 1827; compiled Greek lexicon, with E. H. Barker [q. v.], 1831. [xvi. (2.99)

2. Sidney Lee, Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome alphabetic letter L, entry 17457
   bookseller; collector of and authority on best editions and valuable books, both English and foreign; published editions of Thucydides, Herodotus, and Xenophon, as part of a scheme for a worthy edition of the Greek classics. [xxxi. (2.76)

3. Walter Thornbury, A Narrative of its History, its People and its Places. Illustrated with Numerous Engravings from the Most Authentic Sources.: Old and New London: Volume 3 chapter 27, page 216
   Mr. Parton gives no authority for these details; and it is to be feared that he allowed his antiquarian zeal to carry him in this one matter-like Herodotus of oldout of the domain of fact into the airy regions of fiction. (2.49)

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10 from American Memory: California

1. Sixty years in Southern California, 1853-1913, containing the reminiscences of Harris Newmark. Edited by Maurice H. Newmark; Marco R. Newmark page 665
   Herodotus, xii (3.58)

2. Granite crags; by C.F. Gordon Cumming page 4
   HERODOTUS. (3.23)

3. Six months in California. By J.G. Player-Frowd page 2
   The TALE of the GREAT PERSIAN WAR, from the Histories of Herodotus. (2.84)

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7 from American Memory: Upper Midwest

1. Memoirs of Jeremiah Curtin page 707
   In and near those are the mounds which mark the site of Memphis, that city which excelled all contemporary cities, and, if we give credence to Herodotus, all cities of today. (3.97)

2. Personal memoirs of a residence of thirty years with the Indian tribes on the American frontiers: with brief notices of passing events, facts, and opinions, A. D. 1812 to A. D. 1842 page 143
   The ancient Thracians are thus described by Herodotus: “The most honorable life with them is a life of indolence; the most contemptible that of a husbandman. (3.49)

3. Reminiscences; the story of an emigrant page 276
   According to Herodotus one hundred and twenty thousand men were occupied twenty years in building it. (2.43)

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2 from American Memory: Chesapeake Bay

1. William Byrd, A journey to the land of Eden: and other papers, by William Byrd page 200
   I question not but there are thirty thousand acres at least, lying altogether, as fertile as the lands were said to be about Babylon, which yielded, if Herodotus tells us right, an increase of no less than two or three hundred for one. (2.62)

2. William Byrd, A journey to the land of Eden: and other papers, by William Byrd page 41
   But as for raiment, he depended mostly upon his length of beard, and she upon her length of hair, part of which she brought decently forward, and the rest dangled behind quite down to her rump, like one of Herodotus' East Indian pigmies. (2.08)

1 from Tufts University History

1. Russell E. Miller, Light on the Hill, Volume I chapter 4, section 4
   Professor Schneider's classes in Greek for freshman and sophomores read from Thucydides, Plato, Lucian, Herodotus, and Sophocles and periodically wrote short prose compositions. (2.69)