The Twitter Herodotus

3.111 They collect cinnamon sticks from birds' nests--after tricking the birds into making the nests so heavy they fall to the ground.

3.112 The Arabians burn  gum-labdanum as incense. They find it growing in the beards of he-goats.

3.113 There are strange sheep in Arabia. Some have tails 4.5 feet long. The men put carts behind them so the tails don't drag on the ground.

3.114 Ethiopia, farthest to the southwest of inhabited lands, has gold & elephants. Its men are the tallest, longest lived, & most handsome.

3.115 I can't say anything certain about the limits of the world to the west. I do not know, e.g., whether there is a sea beyond Europe.

3.116 There is a lot of gold in northern Europe, which they say one-eyed men steal from griffins. But I don't believe that such men exist.

3.117 The Persian king dammed up a river that once ran through five nations. He opens the gates to irrigate their countries now for a price.

3.118 Intaphrenes, 1 of the 7 conspirators, went to see Darius but was told he was w/a woman. Suspecting a lie he mutilated the gatekeepers.

3.119 They told Darius, who arrested Intaphrenes & his male kinsmen. But at the request of I's wife, Darius released 1 of them--her brother.

3.120 The satrap of Sardis, Oroetes, decided to kill Polycrates of Samos, some say because he'd been mocked for not capturing the island.