Thucydides's Speeches

The way that the speeches in thucydides seem to reflect what was actually said, and others, what thucyDides thought ought to have been said, speaks to to dicultime. But herodotus has speeches in his history of the persian war, and heis only writing perhaps ten to 20 years at most, earlier than Thucrydnes. So it was a technique in ancient historiography that any historian could put words into the mouth if they thought there was a speech given. And then we have to find tools as historians to find out when a speech is subjective or actual.