Word: diodorus
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...There are many anecdotal accounts of animals acting strangely before tremors, but there's little hard science. "This is the first study that monitors unusual behavior in animals for a significant period before and after a major earthquake," Grant says. In the 1st century, the Greek historian Diodorus recounted how rats, centipedes and snakes escaped from the city of Helice in 373 B.C. a few days before an earthquake dropped it into the Corinthian Gulf. After an earthquake struck China's Sichuan province in 2008, killing 68,000 people, residents in the city of Mianzhu said they had seen...
...classical writers are even more unsatisfactory in their allusions relating to the times before the Macedonian conquest. Fable is at its worst here. Thus in Pliny there is an absurd account of the gold-hunting of the Bactrians. The works of Herodotus, Diodorus, and Strabo contain numerous legends regarding the production of the precious metals. But the conquest of Persia by Alexander, laying open the vast treasure houses of Susa, Persepolis and Ecbatana afforded something like a measure of the metallic wealth which had been amassed through many centuries. In that early time this wealth amounted to hundreds of millions...
...Mather Gr., the speaker of the afternoon, then followed. He said: There now exist some 200 odd lines only of the poems of Solon, 20 of which have just been found. Probably Plutarch possessed a complete set, and and Diogenes and Diodorus another...
...Diodorus gives the first connected sketch of his life and character. Plutarch's account is the most complete, Diogenes' being shorter and inferior...
...related, on the authority of Ovid and Diodorus, that Hercules once attacked a monstrous snake called Hydra, which had nine heads, and if any of them was cut off, two others would spring up to take its place. The only way to stop these heads from growing was by burning them off. I don't believe this story, but merely quote it here because it is an exact parallel to the story of my mustache...
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