POLIBII LYCORTAE: HISTORIARUM.
Polybiou tou Lykorta Megalopolitou Historion ta sozomena
= Polybii Lycortae F. Megalopolitani Historiarum libri qui supersunt
Comments by Isaaco Casaubono.
Amstelodami: Johannis Janssonii a Waesberge & Johannis van Someren, 1670.
3 volumes
Size 4 3/4 by 7 3/4"
Vellum bound
Text in Greek and Latin
Manuscript title on the spines
Vellum is soiled, with red spots on the front cover of Vol. I.
Some dampstains, occasional wormtracks in the margins

Polybius ( c.?200 – c.?118 BC ) was a Greek historian of the Hellenistic period.
He is noted for his work The Histories, which covered the period of 264–146 BC and the Punic Wars in detail.
Polybius is important for his analysis of the mixed constitution or the separation of powers in government, his in-depth discussion of checks and balances to limit power, and his introduction of "the people", which was influential on Montesquieu's The Spirit of the Laws, John Locke's Two Treatises of Government, and the framers of the United States Constitution.



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