Delphi Classics

All hated Whiggery; but what is Whiggery?
A levelling, rancorous, rational sort of mind
That never looked out of the eye of a saint
Or out of drunkard’s eye

The moon and the Pleiades set; it is midnight. Time passes and I lie alone.

father of Alexander the Great. Polybius portrays him as the ideal statesman

Can any one be so indifferent or idle as not to care to know by what means, and under what kind of polity, almost the whole inhabited world was conquered and brought under the dominion of the single city of Rome, and that too within a period of not quite fifty-three years?

The Persians for a certain length of time were possessed of a great empire and dominion.

Lacedaemonians, after contending for supremacy in Greece for many generations, w

The Macedonians obtained dominion in Europe from the lands bordering on the Adriatic to the Danube,

My History begins in the 140th Olympiad

My work thus begins where that of Aratus of Sicyon leaves off.

Now up to this time the world’s history had been, so to speak, a series of disconnected transactions, as widely separated in their origin and results as in their localities. But from this time forth History becomes a connected whole: the affairs of Italy and Libya are involved with those of Asia and Greece, and the tendency of all is to unity