Category: History - Ancient
+1.+ Had the praise of History been passed over by former Chroniclers it would perhaps have been incumbent upon me to urge the choice and special study of records of this sort, as the readiest means men can have of correcting their knowledge of the past. But my predecessors ha...
+1.+ I stated in my first book that my work was to start from the Social war, the Hannibalian war, and the war for the possession of Coele-Syria. In the same book I stated my re...
1. BOOK I+1.+ Had the praise of History been passed over by former Chroniclers it would perhaps have been incumbent upon me to urge the choice and special study of records of this sort,...
6. BOOK V+1.+ The year of office as Strategus of the younger Aratus had now come to an end with the rising of the Pleiades; for that was the arrangement of time then observed by the Acha...
2. BOOK II+1.+ In the previous book I have described how the Romans, having subdued all Italy, began to aim at foreign dominion; how they crossed to Sicily, and the reasons of the war whi...
5. did. Their anger, therefore, was short-lived, and they presentlyvoted against going to war with them. So true is it that an habitual course of wrong-doing finds readier pardon than when it is spasmodic or isolated. The former, at any rate, w...
10. BOOK IX+1.+ Such are the most conspicuous transactions of this Olympiad, that is, of the four years which an Olympiad must be reckoned to contain; and I shall endeavour to include the...
7. BOOK VI+1.+ I am aware that some will be at a loss to account for my interrupting the course of my narrative for the sake of entering upon the following disquisition on the Roman const...
9. BOOK VIII+1.+ Tiberius a Roman Proconsul fell into an ambuscade, and, after offering with his attendants a gallant as he was advancing from Lucania to Capua, by the treachery of the Luca...
8. BOOK VII+1.+ The people of Capua, in Campania, becoming wealthy through the fertility of their soil, degenerated into luxury and extravagance surpassing even the common report about Cro...
4. BOOK IV+1.+ In my former book I explained the causes of the second war between Rome and Carthage; and described Hannibal’s invasion of Italy, and the engagements which took place betwe...