Polybius (5666 bytes)
1: '''Polybius''' (''ca'' [[203 BC]] - [[120 BC]]) was a [[Helle...
3: Polybius's account endeavoured to provide a universal hist...
5: ...ail and characteristic critically reasoned style, Polybius provided a unified view of history rather than a ...
7: ...io. Through Scipio's intercession in [[150 BC]], Polybius obtained leave to return home, but in the very ne...
9: ...ns as Greece was converted into a Roman province; Polybius was intrusted with the difficult task of organizi...

Polybius square (2946 bytes)
1: ...[[Ancient Greek]] [[historian]] and [[scholar]] [[Polybius]], for [[transposition cipher#Fractionation|fract...
15: ...ber by combining two letters - I and J, usually. (Polybius had no such problem because the [[Greek alphabet]...
18: ...of war]] in the [[Vietnam War]]. (Coincidentally, Polybius himself spent sixteen years as a prisoner.) Indee...
23: ...e symbols happen to be pairs of digits! However a Polybius square offers the possibility of [[transposition ...

Polybius (crater) (3255 bytes)
20: |[[Polybius]]
22: '''Polybius''' is a [[lunar]] impact [[crater]] in the southe...
24: ...o]] cuts across the bowl-shaped 'Polybius A' and 'Polybius B' craterlets.
28: ...e side of the crater mid-point that is closest to Polybius
32: !width="25%"|Polybius

Cyclical pattern (589 bytes)
1: ...the notion that history moves in definite cycles. Polybius referred to political cycles, Vico believed in a ...

Bifid cipher (1536 bytes)
1: ...'bifid cipher''' is a cipher which combines the [[Polybius square]] with [[transposition cipher|transpositio...
4: First, a [[substitution cipher|mixed alphabet]] Polybius square is drawn up:

Timaeus (2752 bytes)
7: ...''' (fault-finder), laid him open to retaliation. Polybius was a practical soldier and statesman, Timaeus a ...
9: On the other hand, as even Polybius admits, Timaeus consulted all available authoriti...

Pons (crater) (2957 bytes)
22: ...rater]], and southwest of the [[Polybius (crater)|Polybius crater]]. To the northwest along the same flank o...

Horatius Cocles (714 bytes)
3: ..., or was drowned in the [[Tiber]] (according to [[Polybius]]). The legend probably arose on account of a st...

Marcus Claudius Marcellus (2312 bytes)
3: ...ying their chief [[Viridomarus]] or Virdumarus ([[Polybius]] ii. 34; [[Propertius]] v. 10, 39).
17: ...ope/ancient_rome/E/Roman/Texts/Polybius/home.html Polybius' Histories]

120 BC (853 bytes)
13: * [[Polybius]], Greek [[historian]].

Hiero II of Syracuse (2240 bytes)
5: ...nd the eastern coast as far as [[Tauromenium]] ([[Polybius]] i. 8-16; [[Zonaras]] Viii. 9).
9: ...[Diodorus Siculus|Diod. Sic.]] xxii. 24-xxvi. 24; Polybius i. 8-vu. 7; [[Junianus Justinus|Justin]] xxiii. 4...

Diodotus I (2473 bytes)
5: ... was killed by another usurper, [[Euthydemus]] ([[Polybius|Polyb.]] xi. 34, 2).
7: ...dic barbarians and threatened with destruction ([[Polybius|Polyb.]] xi. 34, 5); thus the erection of an inde...

Aelianus Tacticus (2329 bytes)
3: ...oreover, his works, with those of [[Xenophon]], [[Polybius]], [[Aeneas]] and [[Arrian]], were minutely studi...

Marcus Popillius Laenas (808 bytes)
3: ...ilization|Etruscan]] border ([[Livy]] VII, 12). [[Polybius]] (II, 18.1 - 20.7) is correct in stating that th...

Trifid cipher (4328 bytes)
1: ...stead of two. That is, while the bifid uses the [[Polybius square]] to turn each symbol into co-ordinates on...
8: ...e border between classical cryptography's ancient Polybius square, and the binary manipulations of the moder...
11: ...ion cipher|mixed alphabet]] cubic analogue of the Polybius square is drawn up:

Titus Manlius Torquatus (699 bytes)
5: Livy xxiii. 34; [[Polybius]] ii. 31.

Aeneas Tacticus (885 bytes)
1: ... of war. According to [[Aelianus Tacticus]] and [[Polybius]], he wrote a number of treatises on the subject;...

Taurini (964 bytes)
3: ... was captured after a three days siege (source: [[Polybius]] iii. 60, 8). As a people they are rarely mentio...

Diodotus II (816 bytes)
5: ...under of the Greco-Bactrian Euthydemid dynasty ([[Polybius|Polyb.]] xi. 34, 2).

Dromichaetes (1022 bytes)
3: ...icles]] ([[Diodorus_Siculus|Diodorus Siculus]], [[Polybius]], [[Plutarch]], [[Pausanias]]) recorded his vict...

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