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The Rise of the Roman Empire
Polybius
- Form
- Form Non-fiction
- Year
- Year 150 BCE
- Originally in
- Originally in Ancient Greek
- Pages
- Pages 550
Carthage was burning, and the Roman general who had ordered it turned away in tears to quote Homer on the fall of Troy, because he had just understood that Rome would one day come to the same end. Standing close enough to hear it was a Greek named Polybius, shipped to Italy as a hostage after his own country's defeat and held there seventeen years.
almost the whole inhabited world was conquered and brought under the dominion of the single city of Rome
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