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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. Pa Zy�z'dr, as you will find in reading of him, though he principally intended the Hi?ory 0f the Romans, and the Efiablifhment of their Empire, over the greatel't part of the World, which was then known yet had in his Eye the general Hif'tory of the Times in which he liv'd, net forgetting either the Wars of his own Country, with their Neighbours of Eta/m, or the concurrent Affairs of M4 cedam'a, and the Provinces of Greece, (which is properly fo call'd;) nor the Monarchies of Afid and Egypt, nor the Republiek of the Cdrfbdgg'fiidm, with the f�veral T raverles of their Fortunes, either in relation to the R0 mam, or independent to the Wars, which.
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