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The Persian Wars, 8.98 [tr. Rawlinson (1942)] - Herodotus | WIST Quotations
These will not be hindered from accomplishing at their best speed the distance which they have to go, either by snow, or rain, or heat, or by the darkness of night.Of the Persian messengers. The U.S. Postal Service adopted a variation on this motto: "Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat,…