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| Title | The history of Thucydides, newly tr. and illustr. with annotations [&c.] by S.T. Bloomfield, Volume 2 The history of Thucydides, newly tr. and illustr. with annotations [&c.] by S.T. Bloomfield, Samuel Thomas Bloomfield |
| Author | Thucydides |
| Translated by | Samuel Thomas Bloomfield |
| Published | 1829 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | Mar 29, 2006 |
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