Excerpt from The General History of Polybius, Vol. 2
Among all the historians of antiquity, whose works have been judged worthy of the admiration or regard of later times, there is none perhaps so little known as the author who is now offered to the public. The words, grave, judicious, excellent, are indeed transmitted from pen to pen, and fill the mouth of every critic. But though the name of Polybius be thus still accompanied with some mark of respect and honour, his real character has remained almost unnoticed; and his writings, even though confessed to be the object of esteem and praise, by degrees have fallen under that kind of neglect and general disregard, which usually foreruns oblivion.
It may be useful, therefore,, to consider some of the chief among the causes that have concurred to produce so perverse an accident, before we attempt to lead the reader into a closer view of those many excellencies that are peculiar to the following history, and which drew towards it the attention of the wise and learned, in the enlightened times of Greece and Rome.
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