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Polybius

Pronunciation: /pəˈlɪbɪəs/
Definition of Polybius
  • (circa 200-circa 118 bc), Greek historian. His forty books of Histories (only partially extant) chronicled the rise of the Roman Empire from 220 to 146 bc.
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