You know a book's gonna be awesome when the author has the gall to begin:
"In a preface to just a section of my work I am able to make the claim that most historians have made at the beginning of their entire opus: I can say that I am going to provide an account of the most momentous war ever fought."
In the Latin: "In parte operis mei licet mihi praefari, quod in principio summae totius
professi plerique sunt rerum scriptores, bellum maxime omnium
memorabile quae unquam gesta sint me scripturum..."
Starting Yardley's OWC translation of Livy (XXI-XXX).
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