The History of Herodotus: A New English Version, Volume 2John Murray, 1858 |
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... twenty thousand years ? For my part , I think it would be filled in half the time . How then should not a gulf , even of much greater size , have been filled up in the ages that passed before I was born , by a river that is at once so ...
... twenty thousand years ? For my part , I think it would be filled in half the time . How then should not a gulf , even of much greater size , have been filled up in the ages that passed before I was born , by a river that is at once so ...
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