It is rather satirical than panegyrical in character, and its poetical worth is very far from high.
"A History of English Literature Elizabethan Literature"
George Saintsbury
But omitting an exact comparison of their respective faculties in speaking, yet thus much seems fit to be said; that Demosthenes, to make himself a master in rhetoric, applied all the faculties he had, natural or acquired, wholly that way; that he far surpassed in force and strength of eloquence all his contemporaries in political and judicial speaking, in grandeur and majesty all the panegyrical orators, and in accuracy and science all the logicians and rhetoricians of his day; that Cicero was highly educated, and by his diligent study became a most accomplished general scholar in all these branches, having left behind him numerous philosophical treatises of his own on Academic principles; as, indeed, even in his written speeches, both political and judicial, we see him continually trying to show his learning by the way.
"Plutarch-Lives-of-the-noble-Grecians-and-Romans"
Clough, Arthur Hugh
The poet every day indulged his easy and charming vein of amatory and panegyrical poetry, while all the world read and admired his verses.
"Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)"
Isaac D'Israeli