“When a Resolution is once taken, nothing tortures men like the wait before it can be executed.” Quote of Polybius used in When Worlds Collide 1933

Polybius [Πολύβιος] (c. 203 BC – 120 BC) was a Greek historian of the Hellenistic period noted for his work The Histories, which covered the period of 264–146 BC in detail. The work describes the rise of the Roman Republic to the status of dominance in the ancient Mediterranean world and includes his eyewitness account of the Sack of Carthage in 146 BC. Quote of Polybius