📕 Excerpt from The First Book Of The History Of Thucydides: From Bekker's Text; With Smith's English And Valla's Translations; To Which Are Subjoined Explanatory And Critical NotesIt has been the Editor's desire to introduce nothing but what is substantially useful to the student. Remote authorities, and distant allu sions, although abundantly supplied by oommen tators, he has altogether omitted. Neither has he entered into any discussions regarding the dis crepancies in reading. His object has been to sup ply the reader with the requisito assistance for understanding that text, which appeared to be the most correct.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.