[73]
If we turn to history, we shall find a number of
distinguished writers; but there are two who must
undoubtedly be set far above all their rivals: their
excellences are different in kind, but have won
almost equal praise. Thucydides is compact in
texture, terse and ever eager to press forward: Herodotus is pleasant, lucid and diffuse: the former
excels in vigour, speeches and the expression of the
stronger passions; the latter in charm, conversations
and the delineation of the gentler emotions.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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