Herodotus is not more indisputably the father of history than is Sir Boyle Roche the father of Bulls. No doubt there were makers of bulls before his day, even as brave men lived before Agamemnon; but they are not remembered, and if their bulls have survived them they are credited to Sir Boyle by a posterity generously forgiving and forgetful of his famous indictment.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Herodotus is not more indisputably the father of history than is Sir Boyle Roche the father of Bulls. No doubt there were makers of bulls before his day, even as brave men lived before Agamemnon; but they are not remembered, and if their bulls have survived them they are credited to Sir Boyle by a posterity generously forgiving and forgetful of his famous indictment." in the context of "Falkiner, C. Litton (1902), Studies in Irish History and Biography, mainly of the Eighteenth Century chapter: Sir Boyle Roche, pages: p.228, place: New York, publisher: Longmans, Green, and Co." to mean that wisdom is timeless.