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| A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) | 59 | 59 | Browse | Search |
| Polybius, Histories | 8 | 8 | Browse | Search |
| Titus Livius (Livy), Ab Urbe Condita, books 43-45 (ed. Alfred C. Schlesinger, Ph.D.) | 2 | 2 | Browse | Search |
| Appian, The Foreign Wars (ed. Horace White) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
| Titus Livius (Livy), Ab Urbe Condita, books 28-30 (ed. Frank Gardener Moore, Professor Emeritus in Columbia University) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
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Titus Livius (Livy), The History of Rome, Book 40 (ed. Evan T. Sage, Ph.D. and Alfred C. Schlesinger, Ph.D.), chapter 57 (search)
Thus Perseus caught everyone unprepared and ignorant, and grasped the sceptre which he had won by crime.
The death of Philip came at a fortunate time for delaying and for diverting strength from the war.The meaning is uncertain. One naturally expects this to mean the war with Rome, since Livy has been so insistent that Philip would himself have begun the war had he lived a little longer, and no one would infer from Livy's narrative that the war did not actually break out until 171 B.C. The episode of the Bastarnae (note particularly the introductory nam) which follows seems an insufficient cause for so long a delay, and one is tempted to think that Livy was so conscious of the tragic quality of the action that he, like the tragic poet, could ignore the passage of time.
For a few days later the tribe of the Bastarnae,Cf. v. 10 above. after long solicitation, left their homes and with a great number of infantry and cavalry crossed the Hister.B.C. 179
Thence Antigon