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Excerpt from The Classics, Greek and Latin, Vol. 5: The Most Celebrated Works of Hellenic and Roman Literature, Embracing Poetry, Romance, History, Oratory, Science, and Philosophy; History His subject is thus restrictedly military and political, but political solely in the imperial sense; the internal constitu tional development of Athens did not concern him. Attic culture, literature and art, social and economic questions lay outside his sphere. This must be carefully borne in mind; for the two points on which he laid stress were relevance and accuracy. A modern would be inclined to regar im as over m applying this test of relevancy; but perhaps this may be attributed in part at least to the austerity that was due to the strain of northern blood that was in him. He felt no call to justify this trait; but as to accuracy it is otherwise: of this he has spoken in terms that will bear repeating: I have not felt at liberty to record facts on hearsay testimony given by the first chance informant. I have rested on personal knowl edge of my own, or on the closest scrutiny of every state ment obtained from others. Laborious inquiry from all available sources (these, owing to the conditions, were mainly oral) and critical sifting of the information obtained are the keynotes of his method. Then followed the accurate, imper sonal exposition of the facts elicited. He gives us only the results, never the materials. He was not writing a source book. Nor would he tickle the ears with mere fine writing: utility, not popular applause, was what he sought. 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 b