Sainte-Beuve calls Terence the bond of union between Roman urbanity and the Atticism of the Greeks, and adds that it was in the seventeenth century, when French literature was most truly Attic, that he was most appreciated.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
Already defeated in so many battles, they were now also at discord among themselves; the execution of the party of Tydeus, son of Ion, by Pedaritus upon the charge of Atticism, followed by the forcible imposition of an oligarchy upon the rest of the city, having made them suspicious of one another; and they therefore thought neither themselves not the mercenaries under Pedaritus a match for the enemy.
"The History of the Peloponnesian War"
Thucydides
"It is certain," said Phellion, "that the leading article seems to me to be stamped with vigor joined to an Atticism which we may seek in vain in the columns of the other public prints."
"The Lesser Bourgeoisie"
Honore de Balzac