[4439]. Prooemio in Isaim. Multo major pars Milesias fabulas revolventium quam Platonis libros.
[4440]. “This he took to be his only business, that the plays which he wrote should please the people.”
[4441]. In vita philosophus, in Epigram, amator, in Epistolis petulanus, in praeceptis severus.
[4442]. “The poet himself should be chaste and pious, but his verses need not imitate him in these respects; they may therefore contain wit and humour.”
[4443]. “This that I write depends sometimes upon the opinion and authority of others: nor perhaps am I frantic, I only follow madmen: But thus far I may be deranged: we have all been so at some one time, and yourself, I think, art sometimes insane, and this man, and that man, and I also.”
[4444]. “I am mortal, and think no humane action unsuited to me.”
[4445]. Mart.
[4446]. Ovid.
[4447]. Isago. ad sac. scrip. cap. 13.
[4448]. Barthius notis in Coelestinam, ludum Hisp.