Abstract
Nearly four centuries after Thucydides wrote his famous characterization of stasis (iii. 82 f.), Dionysius of Halicarnassus (On Thucydides 29–33) subjected it to a severe stylistic criticism (words such as obscure’ and ‘contorted’ occur frequently, and some judgements on individual sentences express baffled exasperation). In particular, Dionysius confesses himself (32) unable to make any satisfactory sense of iii. 82. 7:Dionysius does not command respect as a historian or as a critic of historiography; and we may even think him a captious critic of style when we have decided that the sentence quoted above means:‘Most people do not mind being called clever when they are rogues, but they mind being called stupid when they are virtuous; they are shamed by the appellation “stupid”, but exult in “clever”.’
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