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Browsing named entities in Polybius, Histories.
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Lucania (Italy) (search for this): book 8, chapter 1
The Necessity of Caution in Dealing with an Enemy
TIBERIUS a Roman Pro-consul fell into an ambuscade,
Fall of Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus [Cons. B. C. 215 and 213] as he was advancing
from Lucania to Capua, by the treachery of the Lucanian Flavius, B. C. 212. Livy, 25, 16.
and, after offering with his attendants a gallant
resistance to the enemy, was killed.
Now in regard to such catastrophes, whether
it is right to blame or pardon the sufferers is
by no means a safe matter on which to pronounce an opinion; because it has happened to several men, who have been perfectly correct in all their actions, to fall
into these misfortunes, equally with those
who do not scruple to transgress principles of right
confirmed by the consent of mankind. We should not however idly refrain from pronouncing an opinion: but should
blame or condone this or that general, after a review of
the necessities of the moment and the circumstances of
the case. Fall of Archidamus, B. C. 226-225. And my observatio
Lipara (Italy) (search for this): book 8, chapter 1
Capua (Italy) (search for this): book 8, chapter 1
The Necessity of Caution in Dealing with an Enemy
TIBERIUS a Roman Pro-consul fell into an ambuscade,
Fall of Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus [Cons. B. C. 215 and 213] as he was advancing
from Lucania to Capua, by the treachery of the Lucanian Flavius, B. C. 212. Livy, 25, 16.
and, after offering with his attendants a gallant
resistance to the enemy, was killed.
Now in regard to such catastrophes, whether
it is right to blame or pardon the sufferers is
by no means a safe matter on which to pronounce an opinion; because it has happened to several men, who have been perfectly correct in all their actions, to fall
into these misfortunes, equally with those
who do not scruple to transgress principles of right
confirmed by the consent of mankind. We should not however idly refrain from pronouncing an opinion: but should
blame or condone this or that general, after a review of
the necessities of the moment and the circumstances of
the case. Fall of Archidamus, B. C. 226-225. And my observatio
Thebes (Greece) (search for this): book 8, chapter 1
Greece (Greece) (search for this): book 8, chapter 1
212 BC - 208 BC (search for this): book 9, chapter 1
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
209 BC (search for this): book 10, chapter 1
The Hannibalian War — The Recovery of Tarentum
THE distance from the strait and town of Rhegium to
B.C. 209, Coss. Q. Fabius Maximus V. Q. Fulvius Flaccus IV.
Tarentum is more than two thousand stades;
and that portion of the shore of Italy is entirely destitute of harbours, except those of
Tarentum: I mean the coast facing the Sicilian
sea, and verging towards Greece, which contains the most
populous barbarian tribes as well as the most famous of the
Greek cities. For the Bruttii, Lucani, some portions of the
Daunii, the Cabalii, and several others, occupy this quarter
of Italy. So again this coast is lined by the Greek cities of
Rhegium, Caulon, Locri, Croton, Metapontum, and Thurii: so
that voyagers from Sicily or from Greece to any one of these
cities are compelled to drop anchor in the harbours of
Tarentum; and the exchange and commerce with all who
occupy this coast of Italy take place in this city. One may
judge of the excellence of its situation from the prosperity
attained b
244 BC (search for this): book 10, chapter 1
Sicily (Italy) (search for this): book 10, chapter 1
Brundisium (Italy) (search for this): book 10, chapter 1