[5] Ars. poet. 141-2, the paraphrase of Homer, and 143-4. The other quotations in this passage are from the opening of the Aeneid, Thebaid, Rape of Proserpine, and the Pharsalia.
[6] Inst. orat. 8.6.14
[7] "Manes Dousici," IV "Ad solem" and V "Ad sidera," Poemata, Leyden, 1613, p. 166. Nicole reads tandem for rursus in the last line of the second poem. Douza is the younger Janus Douza (1571-1596).
Nicole's criticism of these poems is just but superficial. The difficulty with such poems lies in the method, which consists in the establishment by amplification of one pole, followed by the briefest statement of the contrary pole. But the latter is of personal concern and is the essential subject of the poem. Thus the subject is deliberately avoided for the greater part of the poem, and hence there is in the amplification no principle of order to control the detail and its accumulation. This accounts for the features Nicole censures; however, he himself makes a similar point below in condemning negative descriptions.
[8] I have been unable to find this among Grotius' poems.
[9] Joannes Vulteius (c.1510-1542), "De ignobili Aruerno in sepulchro nobili posito," Hendecasyllaborum libri iv, Paris, 1538, Ni., p. 97.
[10] "Ad Rudolphum Imp. florum picturae dedicatio," Poemata, Leyden, 1637, p. 326.
[11] Epig. 1.50, "De Jucundo architecto," Poemata, Pavia, 1719, p. 189.
[12] I have been unable to identify this epigram.
[13] A translation of Anth. Pal. 11.104 and printed as Ausonius in the Renaissance, but probably by Girogio Merula (c.1424-1494): see James Hutton, The Greek Anthology In Italy to the year 1800, "Cornell Studies in English," XXIII (1935), pp. 23-4, 102-5, and Ausonius, Opuscula, ed. Rudolphus Peiper, Leipzig, 1886, p. 428. The younger Scaliger strongly condemns this epigram on the same grounds: Joseph Scaliger, Ausoniarum lectionum libri ii, 2.20, Heidelberg, 1688, p. 204.