Note 106
Two of his epigrams against Virgil, and three
against Tully, are preserved and refuted by Franciscus
Floridus, who can find no better names than
Graeculus ineptus et impudens
(Hody, p. 274.)
In our own times, an English critic has accused the Aeneid of containing,
multa languida, nugatoria, spiritû et majestate carminis
heroici defecta;
many such verses as he, the said Jeremiah Markland,
would have been ashamed of owning, (praefat. ad Statii
Sylvas, p. 21, 22.)
The History Of The Decline And
Fall Of The Roman Empire
—Fall In The East
—Chapter 66