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Considering that the word barbarian comes to us from Greeks describing any language that wasn't Greek as the like the baying of sheep I wouldn't take "bat-like

• jschwartzi 9y ago
  Herodotus was notable among the Greeks for trying to accurately record history. I don't think we can safely assume that he embellished this story.
  • YeGoblynQueenne 9y ago
    Maybe he didn't embellish his stories, but he certainly wrote down a lot of things that were clearly folk tales and hearsay and of which he had no way to check the veracity. You can't really make anything of his reporting of "Aethiopian bat squeaks". Oh and btw- he was not the only (ancient) Greek interested in a more rigorous look at history. You have probably heard of Thucidides, Xenofon etc.
    • cma 9y ago
      Being notable for something doesn't mean others can't be notable for it to.