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But all historians, one may say without exception, and in no half-hearted manner, but making this th...

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There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible as the conscience that dwells in the heart o...

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Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal while others on the contrary...

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He indeed who believes that by studying isolated histories he can acquire a fairly just view of hist...

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Polybius

Politician

Born: 0203-01-01 BC

Died: 0120-01-01 BC

Polybius [Πολύβιος] (c. 203 BC – 120 BC) was a Greek historian of the Hellenistic period noted for his work The Histories, which covered the period of 264–146 BC in detail. The work describes the rise of the Roman Republic to the status of dominance in the ancient Mediterranean world and includes his eyewitness account of the Sack of Carthage in 146 BC.More