Herodotus

Thales too, as Leander and Herodotus relate, was a Phoenician, though some have supposed him a Milesian.

And Eudemus, in his Astrological Histories, says that Thales foretold the eclipse of the sun which occurred at the time when the Medes and the Lydians joined battle with one another, in the reign of Cyaxares, the father of Astyages, over the Medes, and of Alyattes, the father of Croesus, over the Lydians.

whence Herodotus writes that the letters were called "Phoenician.

Wherefore there is reason to believe that the numerous nations, who, besides the Israelites, practiced circumcision, and who are mentioned by Herodotus, Strabo, Philo, Justin, Origen, Clemens, Alexandrinus, Epiphanius, and Jerom, were descended from Ishmael, Esau, or the posterity of Keturah.

And in Herodutus, Otanes describes a monarch as one whose acts are not subject to controul.

and that what Cicero has said after Herodotus, and Herodotus after Hesiod, is true, that kings were appointed in order that men might enjoy complete justice.

For I do not heed Herodotus, but the tomb and Simonides, who inscribed upon the dead of the Corinthians buried in Salamis:

And Herodotus the chronicler came too to you, bringing Greek tales, both others and ones about the Corinthians not yet false, in return for which he thought fit to win a reward from the city.

and that those of double tongue and of mixed race are exceedingly familiar with his verses, though ignorant of much else that is Greek, and some even of those settled very far away — since they say that among the Indians too the poetry of Homer is sung, they having translated it into their own dialect and speech.

For either fame lied to Herodotus, sometimes slanderous against barbarians, or a great force of demons of this kind dominates in that climate.

Herodotus relates that Astyages, king of the Medes, saw in a dream that the bladder of his daughter Mandane, still a virgin, flowed forth into a deluge of Asia;

And if it be objected, concerning the nocturnal images, that the dead are often seen not in vain (for the Nasamones, by lingering at the tombs of their parents, catch their own oracles, as Heraclides or Nymphodorus or Herodotus writes;

For having first spread a report that Athena was bringing Pisistratus back, and having found a tall and beautiful woman—as Herodotus says, from the deme of the Paeanians, but as some say, a Thracian garland-seller from Collytus, whose name was Phye—he had her imitate the goddess in her adornment and brought her in along with him;

For when once the happy life has been taken up, it remains as long as wisdom herself, the producer of the happy life, and does not await the last span of life — that which Herodotus writes was the precept given by Solon to Croesus.

— Men are wont in the schools to bring forward the judgements of the immortal gods concerning death — nor indeed do they invent these themselves, but on the authority of Herodotus and several others.

This is the display of the inquiry of Herodotus of Halicarnassus, so that things done by man not be forgotten in time, and that great and marvelous deeds, some displayed by the Hellenes, some by the barbarians, not lose their glory, including among others what was the cause of their waging war on each other.

As to the feeding upon blood and dishes of that tragic kind, read — somewhere it is recorded (in Herodotus, I think) — that certain nations made a covenant by drawing blood from their arms and tasting it from one another.