Herodotus, Histories, ed. A.D. Godley, 4.42.4

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[4] then, having gathered the crop, they sailed on, so that after two years had passed, it was in the third that they rounded the pillars of Heracles and came to Egypt [30,27] (nation), Africa Egypt. There they said (what some may believe, though I do not) that in sailing around Libya [17,25] (nation), AfricaLibya they had the sun on their right hand.¹

Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.

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[4] θερίσαντες δʼ ἂν τὸν σῖτον ἔπλεον, ὥστε δύο ἐτέων διεξελθόντων τρίτῳ ἔτεϊ κάμψαντες Ἡρακλέας στήλας ἀπίκοντο ἐς Αἴγυπτον. καὶ ἔλεγον ἐμοὶ μὲν οὐ πιστά, ἄλλῳ δὲ δή τεῳ, ὡς περιπλώοντες τὴν Λιβύην τὸν ἥλιον ἔσχον ἐς τὰ δεξιά.

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1. The detail which Herodotus does not believe incidentally confirms the story; as the ship sailed west round the Cape of +Good Hope (deserted settlement), Rio Arriba, New Mexico, United States, North and Central America Good Hope, the sun of the southern hemisphere would be on its right. Most authorities now accept the story of the circumnavigation.

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