The credo seems to be ironical, and more a criticism of the masters than of himself.

[1241] Stahl, De Ausonianis studiis poetarum Graecorum, ad init.

[1242] e.g. Ep. viii ‘πολύ cantica τέκνα’, etc.; ‘nunquam ipse torquet αὔλακα’ Ep. vi. 10.

[1243] e.g.

οἱ πλεῖστοι κακοί

quod est Latinum: plures hominum sunt mali.

[1244]

Sedulum cunctis studium docendi,

fructus exilis tenuisque sermo.—Prof. viii. 5.

[1245]