Brutus, or On Eminent Orators Passage 29

huic aetati suppares Alcibiades Critias Theramenes; quibus temporibus quod dicendi genus viguerit ex Thucydidi scriptis, qui ipse tum fuit, intellegi maxime potest. Grandes erant verbis, crebri sententiis, compressione rerum breves et ob eam ipsam causam interdum subobscuri.

"Nearly contemporary with these were Alcibiades, Critias, and Theramenes. The kind of speaking that flourished in their time can best be understood from the writings of Thucydides, who himself lived then. They were elevated in language, dense in thought, brief through compression of their matter, and for that very reason sometimes somewhat obscure."

«Alcibiade, Critias et Théramène appartiennent presque à la même génération. Le genre d'éloquence qui florissait en leur temps se comprend surtout par les écrits de Thucydide, qui vécut alors. Ils employaient de grands mots, accumulaient les pensées, étaient brefs par la concentration des idées et, pour cette raison même, parfois assez obscurs.»