Excerpt from The History of the Peloponnesian War, Book I: Edited, With English Notes, Critical and Explanatory The leading characteristic of Boehme's text of Thney dides is an adhesion to the readings of the best manu scripts, except in those passages where corruption is fairly presumable on account of (1) some palpable violation of the universal rules of correct Greek, or (2) a departure from the peculiar style of Thucydides, or (3) absolute unintelligibility. He has then had recourse to the conjectural emendations of others, or has pro posed entirely new readings of his own. As far as obedience to the authority of the best manuscripts goes, I have followej Boehme. With a few exceptions the punctuation also of this edition coincides With that of his: Where he has 'repudiated manuscript authority, I have instituted a diligent and careful comparison between his own text and those of Bekker, Krueger, and of the edition published by Engelmann at: Leipsic, 1852, and have exercised my best judgment in making a selection. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.