This year witnessed the beginning of great troubles in <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Crete&groupId=505&placeId=949">Crete</a>, if indeed one can talk of a beginning of trouble in <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Crete&groupId=505&placeId=949">Crete</a>. For of the constant succession of their civil wars and their excessive cruelty to each other, beginning and end mean the same thing in <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Crete&groupId=505&placeId=949">Crete</a>, and what is regarded as a paradoxical utterance of some philosophers is there constantly a matter of fact.
Walbank Commentary