[82]
Why should I speak of the
unaffected charm of Xenophon, so far beyond the
power of affectation to attain? The Graces themselves seem to have moulded his style, and we may
with the utmost justice say of him, what the writer
of the old comedy1 said of Pericles, that the goddess
of persuasion sat enthroned upon his lips.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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