The "Alexandrian Canon" compiled by Aristophanes of Byzantium and Aristarchus of Samothrace recognised Demosthenes as one of the ten greatest Attic orators and logographers. Longinus likened Demosthenes to a blazing thunderbolt and argued that he "perfected to the utmost the tone of lofty speech, living passions, copiousness, readiness, speed."* D. C. Innes, 'Longinus and Caecilius", 277–279.</ref> Quintilian extolled him as ("the standard of oratory"). Cicero said of him that ("he stands alone among all the orators"), and also acclaimed him as "the perfect orator" who lacked nothing.* D. C. Innes, 'Longinus and Caecilius", 277.</ref>