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Excerpt from The Nine Books of the History of Herodotus, Vol. 1 of 2: Translated From the Text of Thomas Gaisford, D. D., Dean of Christ Church, and Begius Professor of Greek, With Notes, Illustrative and Critical, and a Geographical Index, Defining the Situation of Every Place Mentioned by Herodotus I29 - 138. The manner in which the Persians took 149. But, at the same time, the Babylonians seced tinge of twenty months, are subdued by the art and Zopyrus, 150 to the end. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.