ABSTRACT
One thing to be borne in mind is that the most extreme contender for the dependence of Herodotus on his predecessor could not possibly think of a textual reproduction. Quite apart from artistic considerations, which one must assume in so conscious a stylist as Herodotus, meticulous quotation belongs strictly to the metier of the scholar and the grammarian. English translations from the ancient Classics, dating from the Sixteenth Century, such as those of Ascham, himself a schoolmaster, should serve to warn one in that regard. In general one would expect the things to be mentioned by Hecataeus in the Geography, not in chronological order, but as they came, more or less by chance, into the descriptive survey of Egypt. Where Hecataeus speaks in his own name and refers events to his own time Herodotus is generally reasonably consistent, because he bases his calculations on a scheme known and acknowledged.
