Thucydides On History

Thucydides 1.22 The task was a laborious one, because eyewitnesses of the same events gave different accounts of them, as they remembered or were interested in the actions of one side or another. But if anyone desires to have before his eyes a true picture of the events which have happened, and of the like events which may be expected to happen hereafter in the order of human things, then I shall be satisfied. My history is an everlasting possession, not a prize composition which is heard and forgotten.

Something heard in this classroom more than once: What has happened can happen [and usually will].

Question II from Test III

Appellate jurisdiction

Edicts acquired the force of law

Government of a province in absentia

Magistrates vowed to uphold acta

Maius imperium

Month named after him

Pater Patriae

Pontifex Maximus

Princeps Senatus

Promise to restore republic

Proscriptions

Recommended candidates for election

The name Augustus

Tribunicia potestas