The Histories · 2.21

The second way shows more ignorance than that which has been mentioned, and it is more marvellous to tell; for it says that the river produces these effects because it flows from the Ocean, and that the Ocean flows round the whole earth.

Herodotus of Halicarnassus · trans. G. C. Macaulay, 1890
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