Note 417 — LECTURE XXIII, &c. Of Comedy.

Lipsius was of Varro's Mind, who says, in a Letter to A. Schottus, Terentium amo, admiror; sed Plautum magis. This blind Love for Plautus, led him into a strange Affectation of his Style, for which he was expos'd by Henry Stephens, in his Book entitled, De Lipsii Latinitate Polæstra.