It is better to be envied than pitied. - Herodotus

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It is better to be envied than pitied.

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Herodotus of Halicarnassus (Greek: Ἡρόδοτος, Hēródotos) (c. 484 BC – c. 425 BC) was a historian, known for his writings on the conflict between Greece and Persia, as well as the descriptions he wrote of different places and people he met on his travels.

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Native Name: Ἡρόδοτος Ἁλικαρνᾱσσεύς
Alternative Names: Herodotus of Halicarnassus • Father of History • Herodotos
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From Peloponnesos (came) the Lakedaimonians..., the Corinthians..., the Sikyonians..., the Epidaurians..., the Troiezenians... All these (groups)... belong to the Dorian and Macedonian nation (and) had emigrated last from Erineus and Pindos and Dryopis.
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