Note 073
Buffon (Hist. Nat. tom. iii. p. 433 - 437) collects the unanimous suffrage of naturalists and travellers. If, in the time of Herodotus, they were, in truth Ancient Greek and Ancient Greek (and he had observed them with care,) this precious fact is an example of the influence of climate on a foreign colony.
The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire —Fall In The East —Chapter 42