Among the merits of Herodotus as an historian, the most prominent are the diligence with which he collected his materials, the candour and impartiality with which he has placed his facts before the reader, the absence of party bias and undue national vanity, and the breadth of his conception of the
diligence הגייה עם משמעויות, מילים נרדפות, הפכים, תרגומים, משפטים ועוד