...learned from others of whom I made the most careful and particular inquiry." As to his purpose, he adds: "But if he who desires to have before his eyes a true picture of the events which may be expected to happen in the order of human things, shall pronounce what I have written to be useful,...

...writer and reader, but it repays them. In all this Thucydides has a definite and avowed purpose. " If he who desires to have before his eyes a true picture of the events which have happened (TUV те yevopévшv то a-афеч a-кoтreîv), and of the like events which may be expected to...

...occurrences gave different accounts of them, as they remembered or were interested in one side or the other. And very likely the strictly historical character...a true picture of the events which have happened, shall pronounce what I have written useful, then I shall be satisfied. My history is an everlasting...

...either saw myself, or learned from others of whom I made the most careful and particular inquiry . . . And very likely the strictly historical character of my narrative may be disappointing to the ear" of the listener, because it was written for the one who "desires to have before his eyes a true picture...

...likely the absence of anything mythical [to muthodes] in my narrative may be disappointing to the ear.10 But if he who desires to have before his eyes a true...picture of the events which have happened, and of like events which may be expected to happen, given the human condition,11 shall pronounce what I have...