| [No. 470] | Friday, August 29, 1712 | Addison |
Turpe est difficiles babere nugas,
Et stultus est labor ineptiarum.
Mart.
I have been very often disappointed of late Years, when upon examining the new Edition of a Classick Author, I have found above half the Volume taken up with various Readings. When I have expected to meet with a learned Note upon a doubtful Passage in a
Latin
Poet, I have only been informed, that such or such Ancient Manuscripts for an
et
write an
ac