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On the Destruction of Mankind (Dicaearchus)
On the Destruction of Mankind
also: de interitu hominum, liber de interitu hominum
A lost treatise by the Peripatetic Dicaearchus of Messana cataloguing the causes of mass human death. Cicero reports its argument that more men have been destroyed by other men, in wars and civil strife, than by every natural disaster combined.