On the Eight Lines, Usually Prefixed to Horat, Serm, 1. 10 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from On the Eight Lines, Usually Prefixed to Horat, Serm, 1. 10How full of faults you are, Lucilius, I shall clearly prove from the testimony of Cato, your champion, who is preparing to revise your ill made verses. He will deal more gently with them inasmuch as he is a better man, of far finer tastes, than the scholar who in his boyhood felt the vigorous persuasion of moistened thong and rope, in order that there might be one who could lend a helping hand to the poets Of Old against the carping criticism of our day, the cleverest of aristocratic grammarians. To re turn to that point.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.