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Polybivs and A Literary Commonplace

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2016

W. W. Tarn
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This paper is a contribution to the question of how far Polybius fulfilled that part of an historian's duty which consists of acquiring information; it gives an instance, small in itself no doubt, where he definitely neglected to obtain good information which lay to his hand, and preferred to repeat a commonplace untruth of the literary hacks.

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The Classical Quarterly , Volume 20 , Issue 2 , April 1926 , pp. 98 - 100
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1926

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page 99 note 1 Wiegand, Th., Siebenter Bericht über die Ausgra-bungen in Milet und Didyma, 1911, p. 50 Google Scholar (no number).

page 99 note 2 The Times, July 12, 1924.

page 100 note 1 Diod. 3, 36, 3; Strabo 769, 770; App. Prooim. 10; O.G.I. 54, 1. 12, where πρτοι for πρτος is certain. That papyrological evidence only begins later does not of course invalidate this.

page 100 note 2 The relevant prices at Delos are: in 276, 8 dr. the mina; in 269, 8 dr. 2 ob.; in 250, 3 dr. 3 ob. I.G. XI. ii. 163, 1. 7; 203 A, 1. 71 287 A, 1. 118.

page 100 note 3 Jacoby, Ktesias in P.W.