[7] The last line of an epigram on learned ignorance, Poemata, Leyden, 1637, pp. 331-2, printed in the Delectus, p. 399.

[8] The Port-Royal logic, tr. Thomas Spencer Baynes, 8th ed., Edinburgh, n.d., Discourse 2, p. 17; Part 3. 20, p. 286; and 1. 14, p. 90.

[9] Ibid., Discourse 1, p. 1, "Thus the main object of our attention should be, to form our judgement, and render it as exact as possible; and to this end, the greater part of our studies ought to tend."

[10] Lipsius had suggested some such procedure (Justus Lipsius, Epist. quaest., 1.5, Opera omnia, Antwerp, 1637, I, p. 143): "He would do a service to the world of letters who would make a selection of Martial's epigrams in the fashion of the old critics and would affix a mark of praise to the good and of blame to the bad."

[11] Shorter poems 51, Claudian, ed. Maurice Platnauer, 2 v., "Loeb classical library," London, 1922, II, 278-81.

[12] Poemata, Amsterdam, 1687, p. 1; not in Opera omnia, Leyden, 1725.


AN ESSAY ON TRUE AND APPARENT BEAUTY IN WHICH FROM SETTLED PRINCIPLES IS RENDERED THE GROUNDS FOR CHOOSING AND REJECTING EPIGRAMS.

Why men's judgments on beauty differ so much.