Presently they joined their camps and lived together, each man having for his wife the woman with whom he had had intercourse at first. Now the men could not learn the women's language, but the women mastered the speech of the men;
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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