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Nicias (1.1-1.2)

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I think that Nicias is a suitable parallel to Crassus, and the Sicilian to the Parthian disaster. I must therefore at once, and in all modesty, entreat my readers not to imagine for an instant that in my narration of what Thucydides has inimitably set forth, surpassing even himself in pathos, vividness, and variety, I am so disposed as was Timaeus.

He, confidently hoping to excel Thucydides in skill, and to make Philistus seem altogether tedious and clumsy, pushes his history along through the conflicts and sea-fights and harangues which those writers had already handled with the greatest success, showing himself, in rivalry with them, not even so much as

By Lydian car a footman slowly plodding,
to use Pindars comparison,[*] nay rather a perfect example of senile learning and youthful conceit, and, in the words of Diphilus,
Obese, stuffed to the full with Sicilian grease.
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