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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1789. Excerpt: ... hour to write ill.--General observations upon the Greek historians compared ivitb the Latin. THE history of Polybius, tho' written long before the Halicarnaffian s, may be considered as the sequel of it; for the Halicarnaffian begins his history with the origin of the Roman people, and the foundation of Rome, and carries it down to the beginning of the first Punic war. There Polybius takes it up, and continues it till the conclusion of the last Macedonian war, when he reckons the Romans attained to the posseffion of universal monarchy. These two histories, if they had been preserved entire to us, would have made both together the noblest work of history that the world has ever seen; for they would have been the history of the greatest people, and, during the best ages of their state, before their morals were corrupted by wealth and luxury, and before those factions and seditions, and bloody civil wars, the consequence of that corruption, put an end to their free government, and at last lost them the empire of the world, and made them a prey to nations more barbarous, as well as less warlike, than those they had overcome. But these two histories have come down to us sadly mutilated; for, of Dionysius's history there remains no more than eleven books out of twenty which he wrote. These eleven books come no farther down than the 3 12th year of the city. Of those that are lost, we have nothing but some excerpts preserved to us in the collection of Constantine Porphyrogenet, under the head of virtues, vices, and embassies f. Polybius's plan was to be executed, as he tells us, in 40 books; tho' he fays it was doubtful, whether he should live to complete them. It appears, however, that he did write at least 37 of them, as Suidas quotes the 37th book of his histo...



Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781150925146
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 80
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1150925140
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 159 gr


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