Note 261 — BOOK V[218]
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation
Pierre de Ronsard (1524-1585), the leading French poet of his day, but also noted for a pedantic affectation of erudition and a barbarous neologism which made Boileau say of him:
Que sa muse en français parla grec et latin.
("That his muse, speaking French, talked in Latin and Greek").—T.