The Classical Quarterly

Table of Contents - 1926 - Volume 20, Issue 02  

Research Article

Polybivs and A Literary Commonplace

W. W. Tarn

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.