Note 813 — Chapter I · THE EQUALISATION OF CLASSES.
S. G. C. (Samuel George Chetwynd) Middlemore translation
This contempt of noble birth is common among the humanists. See the severe passages in Æn. Sylvius, Opera, pp. 84 (Hist. bohem. cap. 2) and 640. (Stories of Lucretia and Euryalus.)