Histories

Herodotus

Herodotus. Godley, Alfred Denis, translator. Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann, Ltd., 1920-1925 (printing).

[He mentions it in the Odyssey also:

  1. The daughter of Zeus had such ingenious drugs,
  2. Good ones, which she had from Thon's wife, Polydamna, an Egyptian,
  3. Whose country's fertile plains bear the most drugs,
  4. Many mixed for good, many for harm:
Hom. Od. 4.227-30 ]