Kitap 10
1.75
Clitarchus Clitarchus of Megara wrote a history of Persia and of Alexander, whose contemporary he was. has won approval by his talent, but his accuracy has been impugned. Timagenes Timagenes, a Syrian of the Augustan age, wrote a history of Alexander and his successors. was born long after these authors, but deserves our praise for the very fact that he revived the credit of history, the writing of which had fallen into neglect. I have not forgotten Xenophon, but he will find his place among the philosophers.
1.76
There follows a vast army of orators, Athens alone having produced ten remarkable orators Antiphon, Andocides, Lysias (flor. 403–380), Isocrates (435–338), Isacus, Demosthenes, Aeschines, Lycargus, Hyperides and Dinarchus. in the same generation. Of these Dermosthenes is far the greatest: indeed he came to be regarded almost as the sole pattern of oratory. Such is the force and compactness of his language, so muscular his style, so free from tameness and so self-controlled, that you will find nothing in him that is either too much or too little.
1.77
The style of Aesehines is fuller and more diffuse, while his lack of restraint gives an appearance of grandeur. But he has more flesh and less muscle. Hyperides has extraordinary charm and point, but is better qualified, not to say more useful, for cases of minor importance.
