Polybius was never shy to glorify Rome's opponents on several occasions when he thought they merited praise. Take, for instance, the description he gives of the Gauls themselves, during the war I mentioned, when they aligned on two opposing fronts to fight the Romans... his description of the Carthaginians and Hamilcar... his description of Gaestatae. He only strayed from objectivity when dealing in more "personal" matters....the archaeological evidence doesn't necessarily back this up though. There is a danger of reading too much into the hyperbole of Roman endorsed 'histories'....
Well, my friend, as Aristotle said: If they lived and died and never did it, then they could never do it. Right???I would swap the term "could never develop..." to "had not, at this time developed..."
Oh and Vartan about this...
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