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Excerpt from The History of Thucydides, Vol. 3 of 3: Newly Translated Into English, and Illustrated With Very Copious Annotations, Exegetical, Philological, Historical, and Geographical; Almost Entirely Original, but Partly Selected, Translated, and Arranged, From the First Commentators, Historians, &C Duker well defends Thucydides from the attacks of the mathematicians, as not professing to give the real magnitude or geometrical contents of the. Island, but onl its reputed magnitude, and that in the rude calculation of his age. Besides, it must not be forgotten that he says, not much less than. 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.