Herodotus was the first writer to examine the past by combining the different kinds of evidence he collected: opsis, or eyewitness accounts, akoe, or hearsay, and ta legomena, or tradition.

他将所有搜集的证据都综合起来去调查过去的事情。这些证据包括：opsis（目击证人的描述），akoe（传闻）和ta legomena（传统）。