V.] • TRAVELS OF HERODOTUS, 77 retouched it after his settlement in that place. More important for our present purpose is the question of the extent and Travels of his travels, and the only data by which this can be determined are to be found in his writings. The subject is one about which much exaggeration has prevailed, but even after every deduction has been made, they appear to have been very extensive. He was familiar with the coast-lands on all three sides of Asia Minor ; also with the islands of the Aegean, the mainland of Greece, and the neighbouring shores of Thrace, including places as remote, and as far removed from one another, as Dodona and Byzantium. As regards more distant countries — we find that he visited the coast of Scythia between the mouths of the Ister and the Borysthenes, for he speaks in two passages of having obtained in- formation from the natives there1 : in Colchis he compared the appearance and customs of the inhabitants with those of the Egyptians, to whom he believed them to be related3. Babylon j he describes as a professed eye-witness8; he made a voyage to 1 Tyre with the express purpose of enquiring about the temple of , Heracles there4; he travelled far and wide in Egypt, and ascended , the Nile as far as Elephantine5 : and, finally, in Libya he visited , Cyrene, where he describes a statue from his own inspection^ In all these, and in other instances, unless we discredit his statements as false, it is proved, either by positive statement on the historian's part, or by direct implication from his words, that he had seen the countries which are named ; and this involves still more extensive journeys through the intervening lands. 1 4. 76; &s $' £y& jJKOwa Tfyiyew, roO 'A/KewreWeos briTpbirou. 4. 8 1 ; 2 2. 104; $alvoiT(U ph yap Ibvres d K6X%oi Aiyfarriot.' vor)