This edition of Appian replaces the original Loeb edition by Horace White and provides additional fragments, along with his letter to Fronto.

The present edition of his work, along with that of his successors Moschus (fl. mid-second century BCE) and Bion (fl. around 100 BCE), replaces the earlier Loeb Classical Library volume of Greek Bucolic Poets by J. M. Edmonds (1912).

Of the work's original 24 books, only the Preface and Books 6-9 and 11-17 are preserved complete or nearly so: those on the Spanish, Hannibalic, African, Illyrian, Syrian, and Mithridatic wars, and five books on the civil wars."--

Procopius, born at Caesarea in Palestine late in the 5th century, became a lawyer.

This edition replaces the original Loeb edition by Evan T. Sage."--Publisher's description.

A student, the historian Arrian, recorded Epictetus's lectures and, in the Encheiridion, a handbook, summarized his thought.