Note 77 — INTRODUCTION (continued 2)

S. H. Butcher Harvard Lectures on Greek Subjects p. 114. Cp. J. L. Strachan Davidson in Hellenica pp. 414, 416: “The Nemesis of his contempt for the form and style of his writing has come on Polybius in the neglect which he has experienced at the hands of the modern world.... He has not the genius, and will not take the trouble to acquire the trained sensitiveness of art which might have supplied its place; and thus his writing has no distinction and no charm, and we miss in reading him what gives half their value to great writers—the consciousness that we are in the hands of a master.” But, on the other hand, see J. B. Bury’s Ancient Greek Historians, e.g. pp. 196, 218, 220.