The grounds from which he starts, his method of reasoning, and the nature of his conclusions remind a reader of the positive tendencies of thucydides, as they are displayed in the introduction to his history.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
The union of an original and independent personality with the utmost sincerity of thought and speech is a characteristic in which Lucretius resembles thucydides.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
Thus thucydides, in general so reserved in his expression of personal feeling, treats, with a manifest irony, all supernatural pretences to foresee or control the future.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
