ἱστορίαι Historiai
Hdt. 3.113 The Histories, Herodotus; served verbatim
Enough of marvels, and yet the land of Arabia gives off a scent as sweet as if divine. They have besides two marvellous kinds of sheep, found nowhere else. One of these has tails no less than nine feet long. Were the sheep to trail these after them they would suffer by the chafing of the tails on the ground; but every shepherd there knows enough of carpentry to make little carts which they fix under the tails, binding the tail of each sheep on its own cart. The other kind of sheep has a tail a full three feet broad.

The Greek stands ready in the workroom; the English is served. Both faces will read together.

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The Histories, Herodotus — translated by A. D. Godley, 1920–25
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