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Review of Achaean History
IN my former book I explained the causes of the second
B.C. 220-216.
war between Rome and Carthage; and described Hannibal's
invasion of Italy, and the engagements which took place between
them up to the battle of Cannae, on the banks of the Aufidus.
I shall now take up the history of Greece during
the same period, ending at the same date, and
commencing from the 140th Olympiad. But I shall first recall
to the recollection of my readers what I stated in my second book
on the subject of the Greeks, and especially of the Achaeans;
for the league of the latter has made extraordinary progress up
to our own age and the generation immediately preceding.
I started, then, from Tisamenus, one of the sons of Orestes,Recapitulation of
Achaean history, before B.C. 220, contained in Book II., cc. 41-71.
and stated that the dynasty existed from his
time to that of Ogygus: that then there was an
excellent form of democratical federal government established: and that then t