Thucydides
The Peloponnesian War
Translated by Richard Crawley, 1874
What this is
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.
How it is set
One leaf per book, with the sections numbered inside it as Long numbers them. A section of Marcus is often three lines, and a page holding three lines is not a page.
What is not here
Notes. These books have the text and nothing else at present — no map, no lives, no commentary. The Gospel of St Luke shows what an annotated book looks like on this shelf, and these will follow it. An empty heading is better than invented filler.