Robert Bridges, ed. (1844–1930). The Spirit of Man: An Anthology. 1916.
From Herodotus sive Aetion
Lucian (c. 125–180)
HOW1 happy wou’d a man be cou’d he imitate Herodotus! I do not say in all his perfections, for that wou’d be too great a wish, but either in the beauty of his discourse, or in the gravity of his sentences, or in the delicacy of his Ionique tongue, or (to be short) in a thousand other advantages, which make all those that wou’d attempt it, despairing, drop their Pens.
