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Excerpt from The History of Thucydides, Vol. 1 of 3 The present version, it is hoped, will be found such as the Translator has already described: and in forming it he has (to use the words of Mr. Mitford) cc preferred occasionally running the risk of some uncouthness of phrase to those wide deviations from the original for which French criticism (and he might have added English for the last half century) allows large indulgence. It has, indeed, ever been the opinion of our greatest critics, that what are called fies translations of antient prose writers, whose matter is of high authority, and. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.