Note 60 — Chapter III
William P. (William Purdie) Dickson translation
One of the professorial poems of Ausonius is dedicated to four Greek grammarians:—
Sedulum cunctis studium docendi; Fructus exilis tenuisque sermo; Sed, quia nostro docuere in aevo, Commemorandi.
This mention is the more meritorious, seeing that he had learned nothing suitable from them:—
Obstitit nostrae quia, credo, mentis Tardior sensus, neque disciplinis Appulit Graecis puerilis aevi Noxius error.
Such thoughts have frequently found utterance, but seldom in Sapphic measure.