Nor can I explain this by saying that Horace had too tame and unimaginative a mind to appreciate Aeschylus.

Horace knew what he could himself do, and, with admirable wisdom, he confined himself to that; but he seems to have had a perfectly clear comprehension of the merit of those great masters whom he never attempted to rival.

He praised Pindar most enthusiastically.

It seems incomprehensible to me that a critic, who admired Pindar, should not admire Aeschylus far more.
Greek reminds me of Cambridge and of Thirlwall.

When you see Thirlwall, tell him that I congratulate him from the bottom of my soul on having suffered in so good a cause; and that I would rather have been treated as he has been treated, on such an account, than have the Mastership of Trinity.