Note 26 — HENRY FUSELI, Esq. M.A. R.A. (continued 2)
Reading edition
Such was probably that austerity of tone in the works of Athenion, which the ancients preferred to the sweetness or gayer tints of Nicias—"austerior colore et in austeritate jucundior."—Plin. l. xxxv. c. xi.