A history of criticism and literary taste in Europe, from the earliest texts to the present day. Volume 1 (of 3), Classical and mediæval criticism

Note 315 — Chapter II · THE CONTEMPORARIES OF QUINTILIAN.

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Not a few other phrases, such as—

“Cum carmina lumbum

Intrant, et tremulo scalpuntur ubi intima versu”—

show what a formidable, and what an accurate and capable, reviewer, of the slashing order, Persius would have made.