Note 207 — AN ESSAY ON CRITICISM.
Reading edition
In the fifth book of Vitruvius is an account of Zoilus's coming to the court of Ptolemy at Alexandria, and presenting to him his virulent and brutal censures of Homer, and begging to be rewarded for his work; instead of which, it is said, the king ordered him to be crucified, or, as some said, stoned. His person is minutely described in the eleventh book of Ælian's various History.—Warton.
Boileau's Art of Poetry, translated by Soame and Dryden:
Let mighty Spenser raise his reverend head, Cowley and Denham start up from the dead.