Indeed, if you except the century which elapsed between Cicero's first public appearance and Livy's death, I am not sure that there was any time at which Greece had not writers equal or superior to their Roman contemporaries.

I am sure that no Latin writer of the age of Lucian is to be named with Lucian; that no Latin writer of the age of Longinus is to be named with Longinus; that no Latin prose of the age of Chrysostom can be named with Chrysostom's compositions.

I have read Augustin's Confessions.

The book is not without interest; but he expresses himself in the style of a field-preacher.
Our Penal Code is to be published next week.

It has cost me very intense labour; and, whatever its faults may be, it is certainly not a slovenly performance.