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Title: Eight bookes of the Peloponnesian Warre
Year: 1634 (1630s)
Authors: Thucydides Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679
Subjects: Greece -- History Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C
Publisher: London : Imprinted for Richard Mynne ...
Contributing Library: Pratt - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

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