THE END OF THE TWELFTH BOOK.

[1] Such maketh Virgil Pandaras and Bitias.

[2] Apta ad rem comparatio.

[3] Sarpedon’s speech to Glaucus, neither equalled by any (in this

kind) of all that have written.

[4] _Admiranda et penè inimitabilis comparatio_ (saith Spond.); and

yet in the explication of it, he thinks all superfluous but three

words, ὀλίγῳ ἐνὶ χώρῳ, _exiguo in loco_, leaving out other words more

expressive, with his old rule, _uno pede, etc_.

[5] A simile superior to the other, in which, comparing mightiest

things with meanest, and the meanest illustrating the mightiest, both

meeting in one end of this life’s preservation and credit, our Homer

is beyond comparison and admiration.

[6] Δύ ἀνέρε δήμου, Duo viri plebei.

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