Due to inversion traps, Latin or Greek prose lost their clarity and accuracy.
His work is the earliest Greek prose to have survived intact.
He is recognized as the first writer to Latinize entire books of fables, retelling in iambic metre the Greek prose Aesopic tales.
Rhythms are also found preserved in Greek prose referring to the Dionysian rites (such as Euripides' Bacchae).
And now he is Minister of Education, though he can't do a line of Greek prose!
His particular ancient Greek prose is also very challenging, grammatically, syntactically, and semantically.
The word is attested in Herodotus, who wrote some of the first surviving Greek prose, but this may not have been before 440 or 430 BC.
The authorship of Greek prose (with discussion).
Innis suggests that the Attalids probably preserved the masterpieces of ancient Greek prose.
He had a good memory, and once made a curious calculation that he could repeat 3,280 'lines' of Greek prose and 4,770 lines of Greek verse.