大プリーニウスの文体についての否定的な評言.
Pliny's frequent curtness does not make for limpidity. Too often he writes as one in a hurry, with the result that both expression and structure suffer. The ordinary Plinian sentence, in its badly fitted series of condensed clauses and phrases, forms a great contrast to the finished Ciceronian period; it loses proportionately in rhythm, logic and clearness.
J. Wight Duff, A Literary History of Rome in the Silver Age, London 1927, p. 383.
https://archive.org/details/b29828569/page/382
A literary history of Rome in the silver age, from Tiberius to Hadrian