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...ing of that Citie did not with out astonishment listen unto the answer of Thucydides, of whom he demanded whether he or Pericles was the strongest a...

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...splay any great joy at the news; even when the great victory, described by Thucydides, was obtained at Mantinea, the messenger that brought the news h... ...terfuges and pleas for new trials, and Demosthenes, though he was thus, as Thucydides says, taught his business in dangers, and by his own exertions w... ... Moerocles, Polyeuctus, and Hyperides, but in the highest rank with Cimon, Thucydides, and Pericles. Certainly amongst those who were contemporary wit...

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...y as though the pages were open before me. I could recite you the whole of Thucydides, Xenophon, Plutarch, Titus Livius, Tacitus, Strada, Jornandes, D...

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...how that the old respectable calling of freebooters by sea and land, which Thucydides, in a well-known passage, describes as so reputable an investmen... ...y to find, in a German work of some authority, so gross a misconception of Thucydides, as that of supposing him to be in jest. Nothing of the sort. Th...

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...us and others—where will one find views so injurious to human nature as in Thucydides, Juvenal, Lucian, but more particularly T acitus? When I conside... ...e in his kind. What a mockery that such an one should be reputed wise, and Thucydides be esteemed the statesman’s manual! But T acitus—I hate T acitus...

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...translated into Latin the Iliad of Homer and the Histories of Herodotus and Thucydides, but also the Fables of Aesop. These fables, again, were among...

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... rest;" "There came a time-let us say, for convenience, with Herodotus and Thucydides-when this attention to actions was conscious and deliberate;"...

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...ular form of expres- sion in a prose-writer, as philosophic and austere as Thucydides; a form which (as it offends against logic) must offend equally ...

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...ght easily grow up—they are cer tainly put into the mouths of speakers in Thucydides; but we are concerned at present with Plato’s description of him...

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...eadful than a Tartar invasion has frequently been in Asia. The judgment of Thucydides, that both Europe and Asia could not resist the Scythians united... ...ople of Peloponnesus till after the Peloponnesian war. The Peloponnesians, Thucydides observes, generally left the field in the summer, and returned h...