ciceronianists

Updated: May 15, 2025

This has caused some of the critics to attribute it to other authors, as Pliny the younger and Quintilian, who were known to be Ciceronianists. But independently of the fact that it is distinctly above the level of these writers, we observe on looking closely many indications of Tacitus's peculiar diction.

Charles Thomas Cruttwell - The History of Roman Literature : From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius