Macaulay used to say that a lady who dips into Mr. Grote’s history, and learns that Alcibiades won the heart of his fellow-citizens by the novelty of his theories and the splendour of his liturgies, may get a very false notion of that statesman’s relations with the Athenian public.
George Otto Trevelyan, The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay, i.411, note 1.
I suppose Macaulay mentions “a lady” because any man likely to read Grote would know enough Greek to distinguish between Greek theoría and leitourgía and their English cognates.