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7) that the events described in his history occurred during his lifetime. Photius (Codex 99) gives an outline of the contents of this work and passes a flattering encomium on the style of Herodian, which he describes as clear, vigorous, agreeable, and preserving a happy medium between an utter disregard of art and elegance and a profuse employment of the artifices and prettinesses which were known under the name of Atticism, as well as between boldness and bombast. He appears to have used Thucydides as a model to some extent, both for style and for the general composition of his work, often introducing speeches wholly or in part imaginary. In spite of occasional inaccuracies in chronology and geography, his narrative is in the main truthful and impartial.
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Demetrius was the intimate friend of Seneca, who wrote about him often,Seneca, Epistles, , , , ; De Beneficiis, vii. 1-2, 8-11; De Providentia; De Vita Beata and who describes him as the perfect man: > Demetrius, who seems to have been placed by nature in our times that he > might prove that we could neither corrupt him nor be corrected by him; a man > of consummate wisdom, though he himself disclaimed it, constant to the > principles which he professed, of an eloquence worthy to deal with the > mightiest subjects, scorning mere prettinesses and verbal niceties, but > expressing with infinite spirit, the ideas which inspired it. I doubt not > that he was endowed by divine providence with so pure a life and such power > of speech in order that our age might neither be without a model nor a > reproach.Seneca, De Beneficiis (On Benefits), vii.
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