Sometimes hard is just hard and was never easy

[Xyloplax]

This isn't a question and more like a moral boost to anyone who feels utterly befuddled by certain authors and just can't read them without failing often sentence by sentence. I have often wondered if they just wrote bad Greek or something. No, but what I found is that they did befuddle other Ancient Greeks. Here is an essay by Dionysus of Harlicarnassus (a Greek rhetorician active in the last decades of the 1st C. BCE) on Thycudides' grammar and writing style. Perhaps this may help some of us make sense of his writing. The fact that this essay even needed to be written should tell you something. Enjoy!

http://www.classicpersuasion.org/pw/thu ... ydides.htm