[124a] No one can speak rightly unless he apprehends wisely.
[133a] “Where the discussion of faults is general, no one is injured.”
[133b] “Gnaw tender little ears with biting truth.”—Per Sat. 1.
[133c] “The wish for remedy is always truer than the hope.”—Livius.
[136a] “Æneas dedicates these arms concerning the conquering Greeks.”—Virg. Æn. lib. 3.
[136b] “You buy everything, Castor; the time will come when you will sell everything.”—Martial, lib. 8, epig. 19.
[136c] “Cinna wishes to seem poor, and is poor.”
[136d] “Which is evident in every first song.”
[139a] “There is a god within us, and when he is stirred we grow warm; that spirit comes from heavenly realms.”
[146a] “If it were allowable for immortals to weep for mortals, the Muses would weep for the poet Nævius; since he is handed to the chamber of Orcus, they have forgotten how to speak Latin at Rome.”