The first page of Thucydides is, in my opinion, the commencement of real history. All preceding narrations are so intermixt with fable, that philosophers ought to abandon them, in a great measure, to the embellishment of poets and orators.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "The first page of Thucydides is, in my opinion, the commencement of real history. All preceding narrations are so intermixt with fable, that philosophers ought to abandon them, in a great measure, to the embellishment of poets and orators." in the context of "David Hume, 'Discourse X. Of the Populousness of antient Nations', Political Discourses (1752), pp. 212-213" to mean that wisdom is timeless.