[133] Scaliger, Poet. i. 6.

[134] Scaliger, i. 11; iii. 96.

[135] Ibid. vi. 6.

[136] Ibid. iii. 96.

[137] Ibid. i. 13.

[138] De Poeta, p. 43 sq.

[139] Ibid. p. 173. Cf. Milton's phrase, "vain and amatorious poem."

[140] Dacier, 1692, p. xvii.

[141] Poet. vi. 19.

[142] Poet. xiv. 1.