“Unless, Persians, ye can turn into birds and fly up into the sky. or become mice and burrow under the ground, or make yourselves frogs, and take refuge in the fens, ye will never make escape from this land, but die pierced by our arrows.”
~ ‘The History’ (Book 4) by Herodotus (George Rawlinson transl. GB6 - p. 147)
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