The ancient Greek historians (Harvard lectures) by J. B. Bury.

IV THUCYDIDES 149
to one of the latest Byzantine historians, Critobulus. But this influence was of a superficial kind
it concerned style and phraseology; it was generally
a mere mechanical imitation.' And the historians
whom he would himself have most esteemed were
not those who came under his own influence.
I The servile imitation of Thucydides is ridiculed in Lucian's 7rwds 6d
iaropiav aovyypdarv;