tradition of keeping chronicles of antiquity is found rather among the non-Hellenica races than with the Greeks, I propose, in the first place,b to reply briefly to those critics who endeavour to prove the late origin of our constitution from the alleged silence of the Greek historians concerning us. [59] I shall thenc proceed to cite testimonies to our antiquity from external literature, and finallyd to show the utter absurdity of the calumnies of the traducers of our race. (12) [60] Well,* ours