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Herodotus of Hallekarnassus

Darius said if then you have any such trick it is time to devise it and not put things off for our trial is tomorrow Oobberies therefore hearing this did as follows. Then in the next line um Herodotus tells us about another version a juicier version of the story That that some others knew so this is important i'm actually going to read this I mean because it's a funny story But also because it tells you a little bit about how the sources on this stuff works when we go back for this far in time So Herodotus goes on when did Herodotus write this? uh Herodotus of hallekarnassus was a contemporary of Xer

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