Each state was divided into factions within itself:[****] it was agitated with jealousy or animosity against the neighboring states: and while the arts of peace were yet unknown, wars were the chief occupation, and formed the chief object of ambition, among the people.
[* Diod.Sic.lib.iv.Mela, lib.iii.cap.

6.
Strabo, lib.

iv.] [** Dion Cassius, lib.

lxxv.] [*** Caesar, lib.

vi.] [**** Tacit.