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Book 7, Ch. 152.

I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.

— Herodotus

What It Means

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Herodotus

About Herodotus

Herodotus of Halicarnassus (Greek: Ἡρόδοτος, Hēródotos) (c. 484 BC – c. 425 BC) was a historian, known for his writings on the conflict between Greece and Persia, as well as the descriptions he wrote of different places and people he met on his travels.