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Every quotation from Herodotus that a player meets in Scholar’s Dream, attached to the move that says it. Or see them as a plain list →
In Scholar’s Dream, books argue with each other, and each thing a book can do in a debate is called a move. Every quote below is spoken by one of those moves. Open “How it works in the game” under a quote to see the move, which books learn it, and which arguments it answers best.
Herodotus published his researches “in the hope of thereby preserving from decay the remembrance of what men have done.”
Herodotus, Histories 1, proem (trans. Rawlinson, public domain).public domain
In the gameInquiry — historia — so that great deeds not be forgotten.
Learned byHerodotus (Lv 1)
Moves these books can learn whose quotation comes from somebody else. The citation on each one names who actually said it.
“He who pleads his cause first seems right; until another comes and questions him.”
Proverbs 18:17 (WEB).
In the gameChallenge the foundation of an argument before it can be pressed. Lowers the foe’s Contend.
Learned byHerodotus (Lv 8)
Real, sourced quotations found while researching Herodotus’s books for the game. They are not shown anywhere in the game itself.
Herodotus published his researches "in the hope of thereby preserving from decay the remembrance of what men have done."
Herodotus, Histories 1, proem, trans. George Rawlinson (1858–60). · trans. George Rawlinson
Herodotus against everyone else in the game.
