An account of the twenty-seven year war between Athens and Sparta by a man who commanded in it, was exiled for losing Amphipolis, and spent the exile interviewing both sides. He says at the start that he wrote it not as a prize essay for the moment but as a possession for all time, and then breaks off mid-sentence in the twenty-first year.
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No other book on this shelf shares a run of seven words with The Peloponnesian War that is not a formula. On the evidence of the wording, nothing here quotes it and it quotes nothing here. That is not proof of isolation — this measure cannot cross a translation, so it finds nothing between Virgil and Homer either — but there is no quotation to show.
Of the sixty counted across the shelf, the ones this book names most. A name is counted wherever it is written, whoever is speaking. Each one has a page of its own listing every chapter, in every book, that carries it.
1 of 26 are not here. One chapter listed in the contents has no heading in the body.
Translator: Richard Crawley, 1874. Source: Gutenberg 7142.
The text here is Richard Crawley’s translation, 1874, public domain, from Project Gutenberg ebook 7142, set unaltered. Crawley divides each book into titled chapters rather than numbering the Greek sections, and those titles are his.
All eight books, 25 of the 26 chapters the contents lists; the text runs to 199,000 words and stops where Thucydides stopped, in the middle of the twenty-first year.
Public domain, and free to read, copy and quote. Nothing on this page is written by anyone living: the words are the translator’s and the counts are the text’s.