“These well-known speeches have so many unclear and odd phrases that they barely make sense….” Ipsae illae contiones ita multas habent obscuras abditasque sententias vix ut intellegantur– Cicero, Orator 9.31 “One could easily count the number of people who are able to understand all of Thucydides, and even these people need to rely on a … Continue reading The Strong and the Weak: Reading Some Thucydides For No Particular Reason