[4449]. Ficinus Comment. c. 17. Amore incensi inveniendi amoris, aniorem quaesivimus et invenimus.
[4450]. Author Coelestinae Barth. interprete. “That, overcome by the solicitations of friends, who requested me to enlarge and improve my volumes, I have devoted my otherwise reluctant mind to the labour; and now for the sixth time have I taken up my pen, and applied myself to literature very foreign indeed to my studies and professional occupations, stealing a few hours from serious pursuits, and devoting them, as it were, to recreation.”
[4451]. Hor. lib. 1. Ode 34. “I am compelled to reverse my sails, and retrace my former course.”
[4452]. “Although I was by no means ignorant that new calumniators would not be wanting to censure my new introductions.”
[4453]. Haec praedixi ne quis temere nos putaret scripsisse de amorum lenociniis, de praxi, fornicationibus, adulteriis, &c.
[4454]. Taxando et ab his deterrendo humanam lasciviam et insaniam, sed et remedia docendo: non igitur candidus lector nobis succenseat, &c. Commonitio erit juvenibus haec, hisce ut abstineant magis, et omissa lascivia quae homines reddit insanos, virtutis incumbant studiis (Aeneas Sylv.) et curam amoris si quis nescit hinc poterit scire.
[4455]. Martianus Capella lib. 1. de nupt. philol. virginali suffusa rubore oculos peplo obnubens, &c.
[4456]. Catullus. “What I tell you, do you tell to the multitude, and make this treatise gossip like an old woman.”
[4457]. Viros nudos castae feminae nihil a statuis distare.
[4458]. Hony soit qui mal y pense.