Cobwebby English and 90s phrasing

You've got to laugh at Hornblower's comments on a few words chosen by Steven Lattimore in his translation of Thucydides. One as being to his ears "cobwebby english" and the other sounding too like it's from the 1990s (instead of the 400s BCE)!

From:
Reviewed Work: Thucydides: The Peloponnesian War by Steven Lattimore

Review by: Simon Hornblower

The American Journal of Philology

Vol. 121, No. 4 (Winter, 2000), pp. 646-651

Published by: The Johns Hopkins University Press

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