According to the historian Polybius, considerable debate took place in Rome on the question of whether to accept the Mamertines ' appeal for help, and thus likely enter into a war with Carthage.

According to Polybius, this army was partly composed of Ligurians, Celts and Iberians.

According to Polybius he arrived in Italy accompanied by 20, 000 foot soldiers and 4, 000 horsemen, and only a few elephants.

According to the Bauer-Danker Lexicon, the noun ίδιωτής in ancient Greek meant " civilian " ( ref Josephus Bell 2 178 ), " private citizen " ( ref sb 3924 9 25 ), " private soldier as opposed to officer ," ( Polybius 1. 69 ), " relatively unskilled, not clever ," ( Herodotus 2, 81 and 7 199 ).

According to Pausanias and the Greek historian Polybius, an inscribed pillar ( stele ) was erected near the altar of Zeus on Mt.

According to Polybius, Roman institutions were the backbone of the empire but Roman law is the medulla.

According to Polybius there had been several trade agreements between Rome and Carthage, even a mutual alliance against king Pyrrhus of Epirus.

According to Polybius:

According to Polybius and Livy, 5, 000 Macedonians had been killed.

According to the Greek historian Polybius, our principal source on the Constitution of the Roman Republic, the Roman Senate was the predominant branch of government.

According to Polybius, this was the first time poison gas was used.

According to Polybius, Hannibal's cavalry boldly rode up to the edge of the Roman encampment, causing havoc and thoroughly disrupting the supply of water to the Roman camp.

According to Polybius, Mummius ' was unable to resist the pressure of those around him.

According to Polybius, Sempronius felt free to act on his own: " He was, it is true, at liberty to act as he thought best owing to the illness of Scipio.

According to the ancient Greek historian Polybius, an important factor in Philip's decision to take advantage of this opportunity was the influence of Demetrius of Pharos.

According to the contemporary historian Polybius, it was the people ( and thus the assemblies ) who had the final say regarding the election of magistrates, the enactment of new statutes, the carrying out of capital punishment, the declaration of war and peace, and the creation ( or dissolution ) of alliances.

According to Polybius, he asserted that " religion was a deliberate imposture devised by some cunning man for political ends.

According to Polybius, who has the most fully developed version of the cycle, it rotates through the three basic forms of government, democracy, aristocracy, and monarchy and the three degenerate forms of each of these governments ochlocracy, oligarchy, and tyranny.

According to Polybius, the Romans seized a shipwrecked Carthaginian quinquereme and used it as a blueprint for their own ships, but it is stated that the Roman copies were heavier than the Carthaginian vessels, which were better built.

According to Polybius, at the Battle of Ecnomus the Roman quinqueremes carried a total crew of 420, 300 of whom were rowers, and the rest marines.

According to Polybius, Ptolemy had 70, 000 infantry, 5, 000 cavalry, and 73 war elephants and Antiochus 62, 000 infantry, 6, 000 cavalry, and 102 elephants.

According to Polybius, the African elephants could not bear the smell, sound and view of their Indian counterparts as well as their greater size and strength and would easily give way and rout.

According to Polybius, the Syrians suffered a little under 10, 000 foot dead, about 300 horse and 5 elephants, 4, 000 men were taken prisoner.

According to some Roman historians, including Polybius ( Book 10 ), Laelius was a friend of Scipio from childhood ; however, his family background is obscure.

According to the Suda, a 10th century encyclopedia, Alexis was the paternal uncle of the dramatist Menander and wrote 245 comedies, of which only fragments now survive, including some 130 preserved titles.

According to the Suda he wrote 245 comedies, of which only fragments including some 130 titles survive.

") According to the liner notes of his first ( self-titled ) album, musician Bob Dylan dedicated the first song he ever wrote to Bardot.

According to the Official Buffy Watcher's Guide, Whedon wrote the pilot to the TV series as a sequel to his original script, which is why the show makes references to events not occurred in the film.

According to one authority ( a legend on the 1489 map of Henricus Martellus Germanus ), Cão died off Cape Cross ; but João de Barros and others wrote of his return to the Congo, and subsequent taking of a native envoy to Portugal.

According to Suetonius, he even wrote a book on the subject of hair care.

According to tradition, Saul / Paul of Tarsus wrote this letter while he was in prison in Rome ( around AD 62 ).

According to the sixth century Byzantine scholar Zosimus, " Honorius wrote letters to the cities in Britain, bidding them to guard themselves.

According to an article Fahrenheit wrote in 1724, he based his scale on three reference points of temperature.

According to a letter Fahrenheit wrote to his friend Herman Boerhaave, his scale was built on the work of Ole Rømer, whom he had met earlier.

According to scholar Alan Dundes, who wrote extensively on the topic, the custom originated among Romani Gypsies in Wales ( Welsh Kale Gypsies ) and England ( English Romanichal Gypsies ).

According to Camus, Sartre was a writer who resisted, not a resister who wrote.

According to Toufic Fahd, around the 9th century, Al-Dinawari, an Iranian Kurdish naturalist, wrote the Kitab al-Nabat ( Book of Plants ), in which he deals with the application of meteorology to agriculture during the Muslim Agricultural Revolution.

According to Peter Hook, the band wrote and recorded enough material during the sessions for this album to release a follow-up in the near future, but it has yet to materialise.

According to Dr. Vitalii Nikolaevich Tsygichko, a Senior Analyst at the Academy of Sciences, the author of the study, Mathematical Model of Soviet Strategic Operations on the Continental Theater, and a former member of the General Staff, military analysts discussed the idea of a " nuclear winter " ( although they did not use that exact term ) years before U. S. scientists wrote about it in the 1980s .< REF > http :// www. gwu. edu /~ nsarchiv // nukevault / ebb285 /</ REF >

According to music journalist Ben Myers, Bad Religion " layered their pissed off, politicized sound with the smoothest of harmonies "; Descendents " wrote almost surfy, Beach Boys – inspired songs about girls and food and being young ( ish )".

According to German philosopher Karl Jaspers, when Spinoza wrote " Deus sive Natura " ( God or Nature ) Spinoza did not mean to say that God and Nature are interchangeable terms, but rather that God's transcendence was attested by his infinitely many attributes, and that two attributes known by humans, namely Thought and Extension, signified God's immanence.

According to Joseph Bottum, Pacelli in 1937 " warned A. W. Klieforth, the American consul to Berlin, that Hitler was " an untrustworthy scoundrel and fundamentally wicked person "; Klieforth wrote that Pacelli " did not believe Hitler capable of moderation, and ... fully supported the German bishops in their anti-Nazi stand.

According to John Sobol, the jazz musician and poet who wrote Digitopia Blues, rap " bears a striking resemblance to the evolution of jazz both stylistically and formally.

According to Orbison, the subsequent songs he wrote with Melson during this period were constructed with his voice in mind, specifically to showcase its range and power.

According to Imad ad-Din, Nur ad-Din wrote to Saladin in June 1171, telling him to reestablish the Abbasid caliphate in Egypt, which Saladin coordinated two months later after additional encouragement by Najm ad-Din al-Khabushani, the Shafi ' i faqih, who vehemently opposed Shia rule in the country.

According to Jewish tradition, King Solomon wrote three books of the Bible:

According to al-Jazeera reporter Yosri Fouda's documentary Top Secret: The Road to September 11, three weeks prior to the attacks Saeed is believed to have used the name ' Abdul Rahman ' to send a message to Ramzi bin al-Shibh ( who was posing as a girlfriend ) online, in which he wrote

According to Hamid S. Hosseini, the power of supply and demand was understood to some extent by several early Muslim scholars, such as fourteenth-century Mamluk scholar Ibn Taymiyyah, who wrote:

According to Irving Kristol, self-described founder of American Neoconservatism, Thucydides wrote " the favorite neoconservative text on foreign affairs "; and Thucydides is a required text at the Naval War College, an American institution located in Rhode Island.