Histories

The last passage is taken, almost word for word, from the third book of Polybius.

And Herodotus agrees with him in his first book.

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.

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 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.

Vitellius is carped at by Tacitus for his lavish grants of Latinity (Latium vulgo dilargiri, Hist.

But indeed the same Cornelius Tacitus — that most talkative of liars — forgetting his own assertion, reports in his later books that Pompey the Great, when the Jews were subdued and Jerusalem taken, entered the temple and, searching it thoroughly, found nothing of an image.