Histories, 2.74

Herodotus  translated by G. C. Macaulay

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74There are also about Thebes sacred serpents, not at all harmful to men, which are small in size and have two horns growing from the top of the head: these they bury when they die in the temple of Zeus, for to this god they say that they are sacred.

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