Far Far Away (before_dawn) wrote in excerpts, @ 2004-06-06 12:57:00

Excerpt from "The History" by Herodotus
Did you see the film, "The English Patient?" This is the book that he carries around with him and the book that he has Juliette Binoche, his Italian nurse read to him.


The History by Herodotus"

173. The Nearest neighbors of the Nasamones are the Psylli, who were destroyed in the following way. There was a south wind that blew upon them and dried up all their water tanks, and the whole country within the region of the Syria was waterless. They took common counsel and marched wothward (the story I am telling is that of the Libyans), and when they got to the sandy part, the south wind blew a storm upon them and buried them. When they met their end thus, the Nasamones took over their country.

174. Southward and inland of thses are the Garamantes, who live in a beast-haunted country. These people avoid everyone and the company of anyone. They have no warlike arms at all, nor do they know how to defend themselves.

175. These live inland of the Nasamones. But along the seacoast, to the west, the neighbors of the Nasamones are the Macae, who shave their heads but let the middle of their hair grow, shaving of ostriches for bucklers.

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