For a critical examination of the story see Schwegler, Romische Geschichte, bks.
Selections were included in a volume of Flores compiled at Verona in 1329; and a MS. of bks.
Some critics think on these and other grounds that Thucydides wrote and published bks.
See Ammianus Marcellinus, bks.
But his notices of political events in this part of his work are far less copious than in (3) Bks.