<head lang="la">I. Ex Prooemio</head><w lemma="%2Aai%28">Αἱ</w> <w lemma="me%5Cn">μὲν</w> <w lemma="ou%29%3Dn">οὖν</w> <w lemma="e%29pifane%2Fstatai">ἐπιφανέσταται</w> <w lemma="pra%2Fceis">πράξεις</w> <w lemma="tw%3Dn">τῶν</w> <w lemma="u%28po%5C">ὑπὸ</w> <w lemma="th%3Ds">τῆς</w> <w lemma="proeirhme%2Fnhs">προειρημένης</w> <w lemma="o%29lumpia%2Fdos">ὀλυμπιάδος</w> <w lemma="perilhfqeisw%3Dn">περιληφθεισῶν</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="tou%3D">τοῦ</w> <w lemma="tetraetou%3Ds">τετραετοῦς</w> <w lemma="diasth%2Fmatos">διαστήματος</w>, <w lemma="o%28%2F">ὅ</w> <w lemma="famen">φαμεν</w> <w lemma="dei%3Dn">δεῖν</w> <w lemma="o%29lumpia%2Fda">ὀλυμπιάδα</w> <w lemma="nomi%2Fzein">νομίζειν</w>, <w lemma="ei%29si%5Cn">εἰσὶν</w> <w lemma="au%28%3Dtai:">αὗται·</w> <w lemma="peri%5C">περὶ</w> <w lemma="w%28%3Dn">ὧν</w> <w lemma="h%28mei%3Ds">ἡμεῖς</w> <w lemma="e%29n">ἐν</w> <w lemma="dusi%5C">δυσὶ</w> <w lemma="bubli%2Fois">βυβλίοις</w> <w lemma="peiraso%2Fmeqa">πειρασόμεθα</w> <w lemma="poiei%3Dsqai">ποιεῖσθαι</w> <w lemma="th%5Cn">τὴν</w> <w lemma="e%29ch%2Fghsin">ἐξήγησιν</w>.
<w lemma="ou%29k">οὐκ</w> <w lemma="a%29gnow%3D">ἀγνοῶ</w> <w lemma="de%5C">δὲ</w> <w lemma="dio%2Fti">διότι</w> <w lemma="sumbai%2Fnei">συμβαίνει</w> <w lemma="th%5Cn">τὴν</w> <w lemma="pragmatei%2Fan">πραγματείαν</w> <w lemma="h%28mw%3Dn">ἡμῶν</w> <w lemma="e%29%2Fxein">ἔχειν</w> <w lemma="au%29sthro%2Fn">αὐστηρόν</w> <w lemma="ti">τι</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="pro%5Cs">πρὸς</w> <w lemma="e%28%5Cn">ἓν</w> <w lemma="ge%2Fnos">γένος</w> <w lemma="a%29kroatw%3Dn">ἀκροατῶν</w> <w lemma="oi%29keiou%3Dsqai">οἰκειοῦσθαι</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="kri%2Fnesqai">κρίνεσθαι</w> <w lemma="dia%5C">διὰ</w> <w lemma="to%5C">τὸ</w> <w lemma="monoeide%5Cs">μονοειδὲς</w> <w lemma="th%3Ds">τῆς</w> <w lemma="sunta%2Fcews">συντάξεως</w>.
<w lemma="oi%28">οἱ</w> <w lemma="me%5Cn">μὲν</w> <w lemma="ga%5Cr">γὰρ</w> <w lemma="a%29%2Flloi">ἄλλοι</w> <w lemma="suggrafei%3Ds">συγγραφεῖς</w> <w lemma="sxedo%5Cn">σχεδὸν</w> <w lemma="a%28%2Fpantes">ἅπαντες</w>, <w lemma="ei%29">εἰ</w> <w lemma="de%5C">δὲ</w> <w lemma="mh%2F">μή</w> <w lemma="g%27">γ᾽</w>, <w lemma="oi%28">οἱ</w> <w lemma="plei%2Fous">πλείους</w>, <w lemma="pa%3Dsi">πᾶσι</w> <w lemma="toi%3Ds">τοῖς</w> <w lemma="th%3Ds">τῆς</w> <w lemma="i%28stori%2Fas">ἱστορίας</w> <w lemma="me%2Fresi">μέρεσι</w> <w lemma="xrw%2Fmenoi">χρώμενοι</w> <w lemma="pollou%5Cs">πολλοὺς</w> <w lemma="e%29fe%2Flkontai">ἐφέλκονται</w> <w lemma="pro%5Cs">πρὸς</w> <w lemma="e%29%2Fnteucin">ἔντευξιν</w> <w lemma="tw%3Dn">τῶν</w> <w lemma="u%28pomnhma%2Ftwn">ὑπομνημάτων</w>.
<w lemma="to%5Cn">τὸν</w> <w lemma="me%5Cn">μὲν</w> <w lemma="ga%5Cr">γὰρ</w> <w lemma="filh%2Fkoon">φιλήκοον</w> <w lemma="o%28">ὁ</w> <w lemma="genealogiko%5Cs">γενεαλογικὸς</w> <w lemma="tro%2Fpos">τρόπος</w> <w lemma="e%29pispa%3Dtai">ἐπισπᾶται</w>, <w lemma="to%5Cn">τὸν</w> <w lemma="de%5C">δὲ</w> <w lemma="polupra%2Fgmona">πολυπράγμονα</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="peritto%5Cn">περιττὸν</w> <w lemma="o%28">ὁ</w> <w lemma="peri%5C">περὶ</w> <w lemma="ta%5Cs">τὰς</w> <w lemma="a%29poiki%2Fas">ἀποικίας</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="kti%2Fseis">κτίσεις</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="suggenei%2Fas">συγγενείας</w>, <w lemma="kaqa%2F">καθά</w> <w lemma="pou">που</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="par%27">παρ᾽</w> <w lemma="%2A%29efo%2Frw%7C">Ἐφόρῳ</w> <w lemma="le%2Fgetai">λέγεται</w>, <w lemma="to%5Cn">τὸν</w> <w lemma="de%5C">δὲ</w> <w lemma="politiko%5Cn">πολιτικὸν</w> <w lemma="o%28">ὁ</w> <w lemma="peri%5C">περὶ</w> <w lemma="ta%5Cs">τὰς</w> <w lemma="pra%2Fceis">πράξεις</w> <w lemma="tw%3Dn">τῶν</w> <w lemma="e%29qnw%3Dn">ἐθνῶν</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="po%2Flewn">πόλεων</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="dunastw%3Dn">δυναστῶν</w>.
<w lemma="e%29f%27">ἐφ᾽</w> <w lemma="o%28%5Cn">ὃν</w> <w lemma="h%28mei%3Ds">ἡμεῖς</w> <w lemma="yilw%3Ds">ψιλῶς</w> <w lemma="kathnthko%2Ftes">κατηντηκότες</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="peri%5C">περὶ</w> <w lemma="tou%3Dton">τοῦτον</w> <w lemma="pepoihme%2Fnoi">πεποιημένοι</w> <w lemma="th%5Cn">τὴν</w> <w lemma="o%28%2Flhn">ὅλην</w> <w lemma="ta%2Fcin">τάξιν</w>, <w lemma="pro%5Cs">πρὸς</w> <w lemma="e%28%5Cn">ἓν</w> <w lemma="me%2Fn">μέν</w> <w lemma="ti">τι</w> <w lemma="ge%2Fnos">γένος</w>, <w lemma="w%28s">ὡς</w> <w lemma="proei%3Dpon">προεῖπον</w>, <w lemma="oi%29kei%2Fws">οἰκείως</w> <w lemma="h%28rmo%2Fsmeqa">ἡρμόσμεθα</w>, <w lemma="tw%3D%7C">τῷ</w> <w lemma="de%5C">δὲ</w> <w lemma="plei%2Foni">πλείονι</w> <w lemma="me%2Frei">μέρει</w> <w lemma="tw%3Dn">τῶν</w> <w lemma="a%29kroatw%3Dn">ἀκροατῶν</w> <w lemma="a%29yuxagw%2Fghton">ἀψυχαγώγητον</w> <w lemma="pareskeua%2Fkamen">παρεσκευάκαμεν</w> <w lemma="th%5Cn">τὴν</w> <w lemma="a%29na%2Fgnwsin">ἀνάγνωσιν</w>.
<w lemma="ti%2Fnos">τίνος</w> <w lemma="de%5C">δὲ</w> <w lemma="xa%2Frin">χάριν</w> <w lemma="ta%29%2Flla">τἄλλα</w> <w lemma="me%2Frh">μέρη</w> <w lemma="th%3Ds">τῆς</w> <w lemma="i%28stori%2Fas">ἱστορίας</w> <w lemma="a%29podokima%2Fsantes">ἀποδοκιμάσαντες</w> <w lemma="au%29ta%5C">αὐτὰ</w> <w lemma="ta%5C">τὰ</w> <w lemma="kata%5C">κατὰ</w> <w lemma="ta%5Cs">τὰς</w> <w lemma="pra%2Fceis">πράξεις</w> <w lemma="proeila%2Fmeqa">προειλάμεθα</w> <w lemma="gra%2Ffein">γράφειν</w>, <w lemma="e%29n">ἐν</w> <w lemma="e%28te%2Frois">ἑτέροις</w> <w lemma="h%28mi%3Dn">ἡμῖν</w> <w lemma="ei%29%2Frhtai">εἴρηται</w> <w lemma="dia%5C">διὰ</w> <w lemma="pleio%2Fnwn">πλειόνων</w>, <w lemma="kefalaiwdw%3Ds">κεφαλαιωδῶς</w> <w lemma="ge">γε</w> <w lemma="mh%5Cn">μὴν</w> <w lemma="ou%29de%5Cn">οὐδὲν</w> <w lemma="e%29pe%2Fxei">ἐπέχει</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="nu%3Dn">νῦν</w> <w lemma="e%29mfa%2Fsews">ἐμφάσεως</w> <w lemma="xa%2Frin">χάριν</w> <w lemma="u%28pomnh%3Dsai">ὑπομνῆσαι</w> <w lemma="tou%5Cs">τοὺς</w> <w lemma="a%29kou%2Fontas">ἀκούοντας</w>.
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<head>Extract from the Preface</head>SUCH are the most conspicuous transactions of this<note anchored="yes" place="marg" id="note1">142d Olympiad, B. C. 212-208.</note>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 particular class of narrative. The result is that I have made my work by no means attractive reading to the majority. Why I thus neglected other departments of history, and deliberately resolved to confine myself to chronicling actions, I have already stated at length; however, there is no reason why I should not briefly remind my readers of it again in this place, for the sake of impressing it upon them.
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