Gaston Boissier, Tacitus, and Other Roman Studies (1906)
“ In the elegy we are their rivals. . . . Our historians take no lower place than theirs.' [1] Let us note that when Quintilian thus expressed himself he was unacquainted with the works of Tacitus, that is to say of the greatest man among them. In his time it was a question for dispute whether Sallust or Livy were preeminent. The classicists preferred Livy, who delighted them by the pure and abundant flow of his eloquence. ”
