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Herod

[ US /ˈhɛɹəd/ ]
NOUN
  1. king of Judea who (according to the New Testament) tried to kill Jesus by ordering the death of all children under age two in Bethlehem (73-4 BC)

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  • The only evidence even remotely suggesting that Persians mummified their dead is from the fifth century B.C. Greek historian Herodotus, who wrote that Persians "embalmed" their dead in wax. Archive 2008-01-01
  • Herodotus was born a Persian subject sometime between 490 and 484 B.C. in Halicarnassus, in southwestern Asia Minor. A Historian For Our Time
  • In 6 B.C. he proceeded against the Pharisees who had vaticinated that, with the birth of the Messiah, the reign of Herod would come to the end.
  • As a species, we delight in making lists, which is what drove Herodotus in the fifth century B.C. and Callimachus of Cyrene a century later to enumerate the seven wonders in the first place. A Wonder From Any Angle
  • And he called Herodotus a thief and a beguiler, and “the same with intent to deceive,” as one of their own poets writes. Letters to Dead Authors
  • Herodotus is like, Truth is fluid, let's not get too fussy about the details. Alcibiades: canonically irresistable.
  • Of these, five are anoles (Anolis oculatus, A. roquet, A. luciae, A. trinitatis, A. griseus), three are eleuths (Eleutherodactylus shrevei, E. martinicensis, E. euphronides), two are snakes (Typhlops tasymicris) (Bothrops carribaeus) and one is a gecko (Sphaerodactylus microlepis). Windward Islands moist forests
  • Herodotus rejoins that camels have four thighbones in their hind legs, and that their genitals face backwards.
  • That sounded like bull to Herodotus.
  • Herod called the magi to find out the time the star would appear. All Four Gospels for Readers
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