Polybius
historical figure · 2 works · 16 mentions · 26 anchored passages · author page · cited 9 times in 3 works
brother · you · your brother's brother · your eloquence · your genius
in the texts
The Rights of War and Peace
Greek historian cited on the origins of human society and moral judgment.
Polybius, relating the manner in which men first entered into society, concludes, that the injuries done to parents or benefactors inevitably provoke the indignation of mankind, giving an additional reason, that as understanding and reflection form the great difference between men and other animals, it is evident they cannot transgress the bounds of that difference like other animals, without exci …
Thus after the time of Lycurgus, and more particularly after the institutionof the Ephori, the kings of the Lacedaemonians are said by Polybius, Plutarch, and Cornelius Nepos, to have been Kings more in name than in reality.
and Aristotle, Polybius, and Diodorus give the names of Kings to the Suffetes or Judges of the Carthaginians.
Consolation to Polybius
Freedman scholar and secretary in the imperial household, addressee of Seneca's consolation, mourning the death of his brother.
and look upon your excellent brothers, look upon your wife, look upon your son;
and, in the death of one brother, warned of what he may fear for the rest, he is fearful even for the very comforts of his grief.
Even in equal mourning the same is not permitted to you as to your brothers;