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Excerpt from Thucydides Histories: Book IV These facts comprise almost all that we know with certainty concerning Thucydides; for the biographies found at the beginning of some mss. Are of very little value. They are derived from ancient commentaries, l to which, according to custom, a life of the author was prefixed; and the biographical details which they con tain, so far as they do not rest on inferences from the text of the history, are often confused and contradictory. 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.