Polybius, Histories

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Book 24 - Chapter 3

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<w lemma="%2Akata%5C">Κατὰ</w> <w lemma="de%5C">δὲ</w> <w lemma="th%5Cn">τὴν</w> <w lemma="%2Akrh%2Fthn">Κρήτην</w> <w lemma="a%29rxh%5C">ἀρχὴ</w> <w lemma="pragma%2Ftwn">πραγμάτων</w> <w lemma="e%29kinei%3Dto">ἐκινεῖτο</w> <w lemma="mega%2Flwn">μεγάλων</w>, <w lemma="ei%29">εἰ</w> <w lemma="xrh%5C">χρὴ</w> <w lemma="le%2Fgein">λέγειν</w> <w lemma="a%29rxh%5Cn">ἀρχὴν</w> <w lemma="pragma%2Ftwn">πραγμάτων</w> <w lemma="e%29n">ἐν</w> <w lemma="%2Akrh%2Fth%7C:">Κρήτῃ·</w> <w lemma="dia%5C">διὰ</w> <w lemma="ga%5Cr">γὰρ</w> <w lemma="th%5Cn">τὴν</w> <w lemma="sune%2Fxeian">συνέχειαν</w> <w lemma="tw%3Dn">τῶν</w> <w lemma="e%29mfuli%2Fwn">ἐμφυλίων</w> <w lemma="pole%2Fmwn">πολέμων</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="th%5Cn">τὴν</w> <w lemma="u%28perbolh%5Cn">ὑπερβολὴν</w> <w lemma="th%3Ds">τῆς</w> <w lemma="ei%29s">εἰς</w> <w lemma="a%29llh%2Flous">ἀλλήλους</w> <w lemma="w%29mo%2Fthtos">ὠμότητος</w> <w lemma="tau%29to%5Cn">ταὐτὸν</w> <w lemma="a%29rxh%5C">ἀρχὴ</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="te%2Flos">τέλος</w> <w lemma="e%29sti%5Cn">ἐστὶν</w> <w lemma="e%29n">ἐν</w> <w lemma="%2Akrh%2Fth%7C">Κρήτῃ</w>, <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="to%5C">τὸ</w> <w lemma="dokou%3Dn">δοκοῦν</w> <w lemma="parado%2Fcws">παραδόξως</w> <w lemma="tisi%5Cn">τισὶν</w> <w lemma="ei%29rh%3Dsqai">εἰρῆσθαι</w> <w lemma="tou%3Dt%27">τοῦτ᾽</w> <w lemma="e%29kei%3D">ἐκεῖ</w> <w lemma="qewrei%3Dtai">θεωρεῖται</w> <w lemma="sunexw%3Ds">συνεχῶς</w> [<w lemma="to%5C">τὸ</w>] <w lemma="gino%2Fmenon">γινόμενον</w>.
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.