The passage is also famous because in it Milton does something that he almost never does. Milton has made a mistake.

这篇文章有名也是因为弥尔顿做了一些,他几乎从未做过的事，弥尔顿犯了一个错误。

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It's not clear that this event ever really took place, but it's really not very important, because what Herodotus is doing is telling how he, I think, and how the Greeks in general viewed the questions at issue.

我们无法证实这件事是否真的发生过,但是这并不重要,因为我认为希罗多德是为了,告诉我们,他以及几乎所有的希腊人,是如何看待这个引人争议的问题的

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