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Геродо́т Галикарна́сский — древнегреческий историк, по крылатому выражению Цицерона «отец истории» — автор первого сохранившегося значительного трактата «История», описывающего греко-персидские войны и обычаи многих современных ему народов. Труды Геродота имели огромное значение для античной культуры.

Геродот — чрезвычайно важный источник по истории Великой Скифии, включая десятки античных народов на территории современных Украины, России и Казахстана. Wikipedia  

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„В Скифской земле произрастает конопля — растение, очень похожее на лен, но гораздо толще и крупнее. Этим конопля значительно превосходит лен. Ее там разводят, но встречается и дикорастущая конопля. Фракийцы изготовляют из конопли даже одежды, настолько похожие на льняные, что человек, не особенно хорошо разбирающийся, даже не отличит — льняные ли они или из конопли. А кто никогда не видел конопляной ткани, тот примет ее за льняную.
Взяв это конопляное семя, скифы подлезают под войлочную юрту и затем бросают его на раскаленные камни. От этого поднимается такой сильный дым и пар, что никакая эллинская паровая баня не сравнится с такой баней. Наслаждаясь ею, скифы громко вопят от удовольствия.“

История, кн. IV, $$ 75—76 (перевод Г. А. Стратановского)

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„В Индии есть песчаная пустыня, и в песках ее водятся муравьи величиною почти с собаку…
Несколько таких муравьев, пойманных на охоте, есть и у персидского царя. Муравьи эти роют для себя жилище под землею и оттуда выносят песок на поверхность. Песок этот… золотой.
За ним-то и ходят индийцы в пустыню, причем каждый из них выезжает на тройке верблюдов.
Прибыв на место с мешками, индийцы немедленно наполняют их золотым песком и с величайшей быстротой уезжают назад, потому что, как рассказывают персы, муравьи тотчас чуют охотников обонянием и бросаются за ними в погоню. Нет другого животного, столь быстрого, как муравьи; и если бы индийцам не удавалось убежать раньше, чем муравьи соберутся, то ни один из них не остался бы в живых.“

муравьи, песок
Источник: История

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„Увертливый, змееподобный ум!“

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Источник: История

Геродот: Цитаты на английском языке

“Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.”

This statement is not to be found in the works of Herodotus. It appears in the acknowledgements to Mark Twain's A Horse's Tale (1907) preceded by the words "Herodotus says", but Twain was simply summarizing what he took to be Herodotus' attitude to historiography.
Misattributed

“The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.”

The words of Socrates, as quoted by Diogenes Laertius.
Misattributed

“Haste in every business brings failures.”

Herodotus книга История

Book 7, Ch. 10.
The Histories

“It is said that as many days as there are in the whole journey, so many are the men and horses that stand along the road, each horse and man at the interval of a day’s journey; and these are stayed neither by snow nor rain nor heat nor darkness from accomplishing their appointed course with all speed.”

Herodotus книга История

Book 8, Ch. 98
variant: Not snow, no, nor rain, nor heat, nor night keeps them from accomplishing their appointed courses with all speed. (Book 8, Ch. 98)
Paraphrase: "Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds" ”
Appears carved over entrance to Central Post Office building in New York City.
The Histories

“This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power.”

Herodotus книга История

Book 9, Ch. 16
Variant translations:
Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.
The most hateful torment for men is to have knowledge of everything but power over nothing.
The Histories

“Call no man happy till he dies.”

Herodotus actually attributes this to Solon in a conversation with King Crœsus.
Variants:
Deem no man happy, until he passes the end of his life without suffering grief
Many very wealthy men are not happy, while many who have but a moderate living are fortunate; and in truth the very rich man who is not happy has two advantages only as compared with the poor man who is fortunate, whereas this latter has many as compared with the rich man who is not happy. The rich man is able better to fulfil his desire, and also to endure a great calamity if it fall upon him; whereas the other has advantage over him in these things which follow: — he is not indeed able equally with the rich man to endure a calamity or to fulfil his desire, but these his good fortune keeps away from him, while he is sound of limb, free from disease, untouched by suffering, the father of fair children and himself of comely form; and if in addition to this he shall end his life well, he is worthy to be called that which thou seekest, namely a happy man; but before he comes to his end it is well to hold back and not to call him yet happy but only fortunate. Now to possess all these things together is impossible for one who is mere man, just as no single land suffices to supply all things for itself, but one thing it has and another it lacks, and the land that has the greatest number of things is the best: so also in the case of a man, no single person is complete in himself, for one thing he has and another he lacks; but whosoever of men continues to the end in possession of the greatest number of these things and then has a gracious ending of his life, he is by me accounted worthy, O king, to receive this name.
The History of Herodotus Book I, Chapter 32 http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/hh/hh1030.htm.
Misattributed

“In peace sons bury fathers, but in war fathers bury sons.”

Herodotus книга История

Variant translation: In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.
Book 1, Ch. 87.
The Histories

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

Herodotus книга История

Book 7, Ch. 152.
The Histories

“Now, that these descendants of Perdiccas are Greeks, as they themselves say, I myself chance to know.”

Herodotus книга История

Book 5, Ch. 22, 1 (Loeb).
The Histories

“Men trust their ears less than their eyes.”

Herodotus книга История

Book 1, Ch. 8.
The Histories

“Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.”

Herodotus книга История

Book 7, Ch. 50.
The Histories

“Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh.”

Actually a quotation from a letter of Lord Chesterfield dated May 8, 1750.
Misattributed

“Stranger, tell the people of Lacedaemon
That we who lie here obeyed their commands.”

Herodotus книга История

Book 7, Ch. 228.
The Histories

“The king's might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.”

Herodotus книга История

Book 8, Ch. 140.
The Histories

“In soft regions are born soft men.”

Herodotus книга История

Book 9, Ch. 122
The Histories

“Far better is it to have a stout heart always, and suffer one's share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen.”

Herodotus книга История

Book 7, Ch. 50 (trans. George Rawlinson)
Variant translation: It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half of the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.
The Histories

“It is better to be envied than pitied.”

Herodotus книга История

Book 3, Ch. 52
The Histories
Вариант: How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.

“Force has no place where there is need of skill.”

Herodotus книга История

Book 3, Ch. 127.
The Histories

“From great wrongdoing there are great punishments from the gods.”

Herodotus книга История

Book 2, Ch. 120.
The Histories

“I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.”

Herodotus книга История

Book 1, Ch.5.
The Histories

“My men have turned into women and my women into men!”

Herodotus книга История

Book 8, Ch. 98.
The Histories

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