Excerpt from The History of Polybius, the Megalopolitan, Vol. 1: Containing a General Account of the Transactions of the World, and Principally of the Roman People, During the First and Second Punick Wars To be faithfully T ranfcrib'd, and made fre quent Ufe of them in his own Difpatches and Affairs with foreignprinces, as his belt Guides in his Concernments with them. Po Zyez'm, as you will find in reading of him, though he principally intended the Hi ory of the Romans, and the Efiablifhment of their Empire, over the greatef'c part of the World, which was then known 3 yet had in his Eye the general Hifiory of the Times in which he liv'd, not forgetting either the Wars of his own Country, with their Neighbours of Erolia, or the concurrent Affairs of M4 admin, and the Provinces of Greece, (which is properly fo call'd;) nor the Monarchies of Afia and Egypt, nor the Republiek of the C art/mgg'piam, with the leveral T raverlebs of their Fortunes, either in relation to the Rec mam, or independent to the Wars, which. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."