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Given the opportunity, would Herodotus have visited the London Zoo? 1 That he made such a visit and recorded it in writing is the conceit of a text for which John Beazley, later Professor of Classical Archaeology at Oxford, was awarded the Gaisford Prize for Greek Prose in 1907. 2 In the course of the description of the zoo, where sacred animals are housed in temples, Beazley’s Herodotus mentions, among various other animals, the camels that can be seen there. He says: 3 τῶν πέρι ἐπισταμένοισί κου ἄλλο μὲν ἐρέω οὐδέν, τόδε δὲ μοῦνον, ὅτι παλαιόν τι λόγιον ἐπὶ τῷ νηῷ σφι γέγραπται, ὅ ἐστι κατὰ τὴν τῶν Ἑλλήνων γλῶσσαν· μὴ κινεῖτε κάμηλον· ἀκίνητος γὰρ ἀμείνων. Since you surely know about them [i.e. the camels], I will say nothing except that an old oracle is inscribed on their temple, which is in Greek: “Do not disturb the camel, for it is better left undisturbed.”