
Herodotus é uma cratera de impacto lunar localizada em uma prateleira baixa no meio do Oceanus Procellarum. A leste está a cratera ligeiramente maior Aristarchus. A oeste, através do mare, está Schiaparelli. Quase diretamente ao sul na superfície do mare há uma cúpula lunar solitária designada Herodotus Omega (ω).
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“Ἡροδότου Ἁλικαρνησσέος ἱστορίης ἀπόδεξις ἥδε, ὡς μήτε τὰ γενόμενα ἐξ ἀνθρώπων τῷ χρόνῳ ἐξίτηλα γένηται, μήτε ἔργα μεγάλα τε καὶ θωμαστά, τὰ μὲν Ἕλλησι τὰ δὲ βαρβάροισι ἀποδεχθέντα, ἀκλεᾶ γένηται, τά τε ἄλλα καὶ δι᾽ ἣν αἰτίην ἐπολέμησαν ἀλλήλοισι.”
“From great wrongdoing there are great punishments from the gods.”
“Tell your king (Xerxes), who sent you, how his Greek viceroy (Alexander I) of Macedonia has received you hospitably.”
“When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.”
“Although he had plenty of troops he did not have many men.”
“This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power.”
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