Time when Herodotus wrote

The passage in Herodotus (i. 5.) is certainly curious, and had escaped my notice, until pointed out by your correspondent. I am unable at present to refer to Smith's *Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology*; but I doubt whether the reading of the poem or title, in Aristotle's *Rhetoric* (II. 9. § 1.), has received much attention. In my forthcoming translation of the "Pseudo-Herodotean Life of Homer" prefixed to the *Odysseia* (Bohn's *Classical Library*), note 1., I have thus given it:— "This is the exposition of the historical researches of Herodotus of *Thurium*," &c. Now Aris…