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A09833 The history of Polybius the Megalopolitan The fiue first bookes entire: with all the parcels of the subsequent bookes vnto the eighteenth, according to the Greeke originall. Also the manner of the Romane encamping, extracted from the discription of Polybius. Translated into English by Edward Grimeston, sergeant at armes.; Historiae. English Polybius.; Grimeston, Edward. 1633 (1633) STC 20098; ESTC S116050 541,758 529

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