Note 319 — Chapter VI · THIRD PERIOD OF HUMANISM
Reading edition
Poliziano's Greek epigram addressed to Pico on this matter may be quoted from the Carmina Quinque Poetarum, p. 412:—
καὶ τοῦτ’ ἀστρολόγοις ἐπιμέμφομαι ἠερολέσχαις, ὅττι σοφους Πίκου μοι φθονέους’ ὀάρους. καὶ γὰρ ὁ ἐνδυκέως τούτων τὸν λῆρον ἐλέγχων μουνάξει ἐν ἀγρῷ δηρὸν ἑκὰς πόλεως. Πῖκε τί σοι καὶ τούτοις; οὔ σ’ ἐπέοικεν ἀγύρταις ἀντᾶραι τὴν σὴν εὐτυχέα γραφίδα.