They wrote for posterity but were deeply influenced by their own times. They were also influenced by the expectations of their contemporaries. Our frequent and uneasy feelings that style is winning over strict accuracy may not be relevant to the historians themselves. A historian will desire to know himself not as an individual in isolation but in relation to the society of which he is a member. Perhaps if we look to the Roman historians to tell us this rather than a strict and pure truth, we shall find what we are looking for.
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