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This credulity of the barbarians was very helpful to Sertorius in important matters. It is recorded that of those tribes which acted with Sertorius, although he was defeated in many battles, not one ever deserted him, although that race of men is most inconstant.
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Of the age of the famous historians, Hellanicus, Herodotus and Thucydides.
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HELLANICUS, Herodotus, and Thucydides, writers of history, enjoyed great glory at almost the same time, and did not differ very greatly in age. For Hellanicus seems to have been sixty-five years old at the beginning of the Peloponnesian war, In 413 B.C. Herodotus fifty-three, Thucydides forty. This is stated in the eleventh book of Pamphila. F.H.G. iii. 521. 7; cf. xv. 17. 3, above.
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Vulcacius Sedigitus' canon of the Latin writers of comedy, from the book which he wrote On Poets.
