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150 BCE

The Histories

Polybius

Argues Rome's mixed constitution — combining monarchy, aristocracy and democracy in its consuls, senate and assemblies — explains its unmatched stability and its rise to control the Mediterranean in under a century.

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This edition
Only Books 1 to 5 survive whole. The rest — including Book 6 on the mixed constitution, which is what this entry is about — comes down as excerpts made by later compilers.
This translation
W. R. Paton's Loeb translation, presented complete by LacusCurtius rather than as one volume of six.
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Filed under Ancient Rome in History.