![]() Between the beginning and end lies a space of fifty-three years, 10 comprising a greater number of grave and momentous events than any period of equal length in the past. 9 The particular events comprised in it begin with the above-mentioned wars and culminate and end in the destruction of the Macedonian monarchy. 8 I have already indicated the general scope and limits of this history. 7 Since a previous general view is of great assistance to the mind in acquiring a knowledge of details, and at the same time a previous notion of the details helps us to knowledge of the whole, I regard a preliminary survey based on both as best and will draw up these prefatory remarks to my history on this principle. ![]() P5 6 For I believe this will be the best means of giving students an adequate idea of my whole plan. 3 I will now attempt to give a well attested account of the above wars, their first causes and the reasons why they attained such magnitude but in the first place I have a few words to say regarding my work as a whole.Ĥ The subject I have undertaken to treat, the how, when, and wherefore of the subjection of the known parts of the world to the dominion of Rome, should be viewed as a single whole, 5 with a recognized beginning, a fixed duration, and an end which is not a matter of dispute and I think it will be advantageous to give a brief prefatory survey of the chief parts of this whole from the beginning to the end. ![]() ![]() 2 I likewise set forth in the same place the reasons why I wrote the two preceding Books dealing with events of an earlier date. 1 1 In my first Book, the third, that is, from this counting backwards, I explained that I fixed as the starting-points of my work, the Social war, the Hannibalic war, and the war for Coele-Syria. ![]()
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