The Loeb Classical Library: The Histories, Volume II : Books 3–4

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The Loeb Classical Library: The Histories, Volume II : Books 3–4The historian Polybius (ca. 200118 BC) was born into a leading family of Megalopolis in the Peloponnese (Morea) and served the Achaean League in arms and diplomacy for many years, favoring alliance with Rome. From 168 to 151 he was held hostage in Rome, where he became a friend of Lucius Aemilius Paulus and his two sons, especially Scipio Aemilianus, whose campaigns, including the destruction of Carthage, he later attended. Late in his life he became

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he finds them looking at each other with suspicion

the second of two volumes

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The Odes and Epodes are found in LCL 33

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