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Extract from the Preface
SUCH are the most conspicuous transactions of this
142d Olympiad, B. C. 212-208.
Olympiad, that is, of the four years which an
Olympiad must be reckoned to contain; and I
shall endeavour to include the history of them
in two books.
I am quite aware that my history has an element of
austerity in it, and is adapted to, and will be approved by
only one class of readers, owing to the uniformity of its plan.
Nearly all other historians, or at any rate most, attract a
variety of readers by entering upon all the various branches of
history. The curious reader is attracted by the genealogical
style; the antiquarian by the discussion of colonisations,
origins of cities, and ties of blood, such as is found in
Ephorus; the student of polities by the story of tribes, cities,
and dynasties. It is to this last branch of the subject that I
have had a single eye, and have devoted my whole work; and
accordingly have, as I said before, accommodated all my
plans to one particul