I Polybius am a historian who was born in Arcadia but both witnessed and took part in the rise of the roman republic. My beliefs about the government being split into multiple branches made its way into the U.S. Constitution. I believe a historian and journalist can only report or write about events they witnessed in person. I witnessed the battle of Carthage and wrote of it justly. I am good friends with the roman general Scipio Aemilianus and became the tutor of the two sons of Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus. I'm known for my books the rise of the roman republic, and the histories.
“If history is deprived of the Truth, we are left with nothing but an idle, unprofitable tale.”
― Polybius, The Rise of the Roman Empire
“There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible as the conscience that dwells in the heart of every man.”
― Polybius
“The order of battle used by the Roman army is very difficult to break through, since it allows every man to fight both individually and collectively; the effect is to offer a formation that can present a front in any direction, since the maniples that are nearest to the point where danger threatens wheels in order to meet it.”
― Polybius
“They want the centurions not so much to be venturesome and daredevils, as to be natural leaders, of a steady and reliable spirit. They do not so much want men who will initiate attacks and open the battle, but men who will hold their ground when beaten and hard-pressed, and will be ready to die at their posts.”
― Polybius
“Can any one be so indifferent or idle as not to care to know by what means, and under what kind of polity, almost the whole inhabited world was conquered and
brought under the dominion of the single city of Rome, and that too within a period of not quite fifty-three years?”
― Polybius, The Histories
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