The Histories · 2.72
There are moreover otters in the river, which they consider to be sacred; and of fish also they esteem that which is called the lepidotos to be sacred, and also the eel; and these they say are sacred to the Nile: and of birds the fox-goose.Read in context ›
Herodotus of Halicarnassus · trans. G. C. Macaulay, 1890
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