Note 20 — Chapter II · ORIGIN AND LANDSCAPE (B) THE GROUP OF THE HIGHER CULTURES
Charles Francis Atkinson translation
He affirmed, on the first page of his history (about 400 B.C.), that before his time nothing of significance had happened (οὐ μεγάλα νομίζω γενέσθαι οὔτε κατὰ τοὺς πολέμους οὔτε ἐς τα ἄλλα. Thucydides, I, 1.)