Herodotus, Histories, Books 1.9-1.10

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Okay. I can understand that ancient Greece was a culture that needed three different words for "marriage-bed" (I've just looked them up). I can even remember two of them, since they are the masculine and feminine forms of the same word, which furthermore sounds slightly suggestive and is therefore easy to remember. But:

Does Herodotus really need to use all THREE of them?!

IN THE SAME BLOODY %&@#*!&$^@! PARAGRAPH?!?!