[101]
In history, however, we hold our own with the
Greeks. I should not hesitate to match Saillst
against Thucydides, nor would Herodotus resent
Titus Livius being placed on the same level as himself. For the latter has a wonderful charm and
transparency in narrative, while his speeches are
eloquent beyond description; so admirably adapted
is all that is said both to the circumstances and the
speaker; and as regards the emotions, especially
the more pleasing of them, I may sum him up by
saying that no historian has ever depicted them to
greater perfection.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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