Note 14 — INTRODUCTION

Demetrius, for example, evidently expects to find more lucidity in the plain style (the ἰσχνὸς χαρακτήρ) of a Lysias than in the elevated style (μεγαλοπρεπὴς χαρακτήρ) of a Thucydides: see the summary in Demetrius on Style pp. 33, 34. And a principal reason for this is that the former keeps more closely than the latter to the normal order of words in Greek (de Eloc. §§ 191 ff.). For Herodotus as compared with Thucydides cp. de Imit. ii. 3. 1 τῆς σαφηνείας δὲ ἀναμφισβήτως Ἡροδότῳ τὸ κατόρθωμα δέδοται (quoted in the editor’s Dionysius of Halicarnassus: the Three Literary Letters p. 173).