Book 1 — BOOK FIRST
William P. (William Purdie) Dickson translation
The Period Anterior to the Abolition of the Monarchy
—Ta palaiotera saphos men eurein dia chronou pleithos adunata ein ek de tekmeirion on epi makrotaton skopounti moi pisteusai xumbainei ou megala nomizo genesthai oute kata tous polemous oute es ta alla.—
Thucydides.