Polybius

American  

[puh-lib-ee-uhs] / pəˈlɪb i əs /

noun

1. c205–c123 b.c., Greek historian.

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Polybius British  

/ pəʊˈlɪbɪəs /

noun

1. ?205–?123 _bc , Greek historian. Under the patronage of Scipio the Younger, he wrote in 40 books a history of Rome from 264 _bc to 146 _bc

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Example Sentences

But Aristotle, Polybius and Machiavelli in “Discourses on Livy” all warn the democracy has the tendency to devolve into “mob rule” or chaos.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

The DoJ alleges that victims were also promised dividends if they invested in Polybius, a virtual bank Mr Potapenko and Mr Turogin said they had set up.

From BBC • Nov. 22, 2022

Prosecutors said the suspects tricked hundreds of thousands of people from 2015 to 2019 into buying contracts for a cryptocurrency mining service called HashFlare and investing in a virtual currency bank called Polybius Bank.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 21, 2022

Mr. Winocour was reading the ancient Greek historian Polybius, in the original, with the help of Liddell and Scott’s famous Greek-English lexicon.

From New York Times • Mar. 14, 2020

Historiographic conceits aside, Polybius was born in Arcadia, notorious throughout antiquity as an irredeemable backwater.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro