Chapter 25: Historical Present

In fact, whenever you introduce past events as if they were coming Lo be and present, you will make your speech and writing no longer a tale, but a thing involved in the struggle. Xenophon says:

A certain man, who fell under Cyrus’ horse and is being trod on, strikes the horse in the belly with his sword. The horse, rearing, throws Cyrus off and he falls.

Thucydides is like this in very many places.