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or of the helplessness of medicine in time of plague, "Mussabat tacito medicina timore." These are a few examples of a power present throughout, filling his reasonings with a vivid reality far removed from the conventional rhetoric of most philosopher poets. His language is Thucydidean in its chiselled outline, its quarried strength, its living expressiveness.

His reputation has no doubt suffered by the comparison which this choice makes inevitable; and though Quintilian did not hesitate to claim for him a substantial equality with the great Athenian, no one would now press the parallel, except in so far as Sallust's formal treatment of his subject affords interesting likenesses or contrasts with the Thucydidean manner.

He corresponds, you see, to one of my previous examples; only he is a second Herodotus, and the other a second Thucydides. There is another distinguished artist in words again rather more Thucydidean than Thucydides , who gives, according to his own idea, the clearest, most convincing descriptions of every town, mountain, plain, or river.

I left him engaged in burying the poor Athenians in Nisibis, and knew quite well how he would continue after my exit. Just think of the dignity of history, and the Thucydidean style the Attic embroidered with these Latin words, like a toga relieved and picked out with the purple stripe so harmonious!

This dramatic form has, however, defeated its own objects sometimes, for all the Thucydidean fishes talk like Thucydidean whales. To us he is indispensable. We are a maritime power, ruling a maritime empire, our potential enemies being military nations. He has warned us that democracy cannot govern an empire.