inlustris

Updated: May 7, 2025

Caesar issued it under the unpretending name of Commentarii "notes" on the events of his campaigns, which might be useful as materials for history; but there was no exaggeration in the splendid compliment paid it a few years later by Cicero, that no one in his senses would think of recasting a work whose succinct, perspicuous, and brilliant style pura et inlustris brevitas has been the model and the despair of later historians.

J. W. (John William) Mackail - Latin Literature