Another good story about Herodes which is utterly irrelevant but great is that he once met a man whom everyone called Hercules who was eight feet tall and had a monobrow and claimed to be immortal. Herodes was so impressed by Hercules that he invited him to tea, an invitation Hercules accepted on condition that no woman touch any of his food or drink. When he arrived, he took one look at the milk, declared that a woman’s filthy fanny hands had touched it and stormed out. Herodes went investigating and discovered that a woman had milked the cow. He marvelled. That’s the whole story. Its total
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