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Excerpt from History of the Great Persian War: From the Histories of Herodotus The notes in the present edition relate only to questions of credibility on which it seemed scarcely honest to keep silence, or to points on which the information given might be necessary for the young. It is perhaps not to be wished that they should read the history in a spirit which instead of being critical may easily become captions but it can scarcely be thought right that they should go through a narrative involving grave improbabili ties, especially when these improbabilities closely touch the good names of great men, without the least consciousness that it is their duty to see whether the facts took place as they are related or whether they did not. The episodes of Demokédés and Histiaios may present difficulties as great as any which may force themselves on our attention in the narrative of the two embassies of Sikinnos to Xerxes but an examination of the latter is not only needed to vindicate the character of The mistokles, but is more likely to awaken the interest of readers who may take up the history for the first time. 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.