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This is the Showing forth of the Inquiry of Herodotus of Halicarnassos, to the end that [4] neither the deeds of men may be forgotten by lapse of time, nor the works [5] great and marvellous, which have been produced some by Hellenes and some by Barbarians, may lose their renown; and especially that the causes may be remembered for which these waged war with one another.
[4]: Ἡροδότον Ἁλικαρνησσέος ἀπόδεξις ἥδε, ὡς κ.τ.λ. The meaning of the word ἱστορίη passes gradually from "research" or "inquiry" to "narrative," "history"; cp. VII. 96. Aristotle in quoting these words writes Θονρίου for Ἁλικαρνησσέος ("Herodotus of Thurii"), and we know from Plutarch that this reading existed in his time as a variation. ↩︎