Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

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Polyaenus

（Πολύαινος). A Greek writer, who was born in Macedonia and lived about the middle of the second century A.D., as a rhetorician and advocate at Rome, under Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus. When the latter was setting out for the war against the Parthians in 162, Polyaenus, being prevented by his age from taking part in the campaign, addressed to him a collection of military stratagems compiled from old writers, under the title Strategica, or Strategemata (Στρατηγήματα), in eight books. In spite of many serious errors, this laborious and copious collection is not without value for purposes of historical research. It is edited by Casaubon (1589); Wölfflin (1860); and Wescher (1867).