Word: polybius
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rare blend of soldier-scholar who commands five foreign languages, Taylor sprinkled his testimony with grace notes such as a quote from Greece's Third Century B.C. historian Polybius ("It is not the purpose of war to annihilate those who provoke it, but to cause them to mend their ways.") and a comparison of Communist expansionism with Islam's "flaming sword" policy...