Because of recent reading of Rene Brouwer's (2022) Law and Philosophy in the Late Roman Republic (Cambridge) and Jed Atkins’ (2013) Cicero on Politics and the Limits of Reason (Cambridge), I picked up Polybius’ Histories. I realized I had only been familiar with excerpts from Book 6, but now I am wholly immersed in it. Before long I want to connect it to