{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/207/2070168.htm","path":"chr/ecf/207/2070168.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/207/2070168.htm","text":"On Laconicism. To be laconic is not merely, as you suppose, to write few words, but to say a great deal in few words. Thus I call Homer very brief and Antimachus lengthy. Why? Because I measure the length by the matter and not by the letters.","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. VII: Select...","type":"page"}