11 So Fervĕre (with the E short, of the third conjugation).
12 You do not perceive the force of this; or how this differs from the other. In the first place, this which we call "Poema" is a small portion. So also an epistle, or any distich which is of no great length, may be a "Poema." A "Poësis" is a whole work, as the whole Iliad; it is one Thesis. So also the Annals of Ennius, that is also a single work, and of much greater magnitude than what I just now styled Poëma. Wherefore I assert, that no one who finds fault with Homer, finds fault with him all through; nor does he criticise, as I said before, the whole Poesis; but simply a single verse, word, proposition, or passage.
13 ... that he is a misshapen old man, gouty in his joints and feet—that he is lame, wretched, emaciated, and ruptured—
14 I seize his beak, and smash his lips, Zopyrus-fashion, and knock out all his front teeth.[1734]
15 For he who makes bricks never has any thing more than common clay with chaff, and stubble mixed with mud.[1735]
16 If she is nothing on the score of beauty, and if in former days she was a harlot and common prostitute, you must have coin and money.
17 ... What if I see some oysters? Shall I be able to detect the very river, and mud, and slime they came from?[1736]
18 He is a corn-chandler, and brings with him his bushel-measure and his leveling-stick.[1737]
19 Study to learn: lest the fact itself and the reasoning confute you—
20 with one thousand sesterces you can gain a hundred—-