that the heavens, the stars, and the sun, have all of them sometimes motions retrograde to what we see, changing east into west The Egyptian priests told Herodotus that from the time of their first king, which was eleven thousand and odd years since (and they showed him the effigies of all their kings in statues taken from the life), the sun had four times altered his course;
Egiptoko sazerdoteek Herodotori esan zioten beren lehen erregez geroztik, hamaika mila urte inguru zuelarik (eta ikusarazi zizkioten beren errege guztien irudiak, biziaren arabera atera giza irudietan) eguzkiak lau aldiz aldatu zela bidetik;