Wednesday, August 21, 2024
Rules for Writing History
Cicero, De Oratore 2.15.62 (tr. E.W. Sutton and H. Rackham):
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Who does not know history's first law to be that an author must not dare to tell anything but the truth? And its second that he must make bold to tell the whole truth? That there must be no suggestion of partiality anywhere in his writings? Nor of malice?
nam quis nescit primam esse historiae legem ne quid falsi dicere audeat; deinde ne quid veri non audeat; ne quae suspicio gratiae sit in scribendo; ne quae simultatis?
