A Burlesque Translation of Homer. In Two Volumes
Vol. II. The Fourth Edition Improved
London
Printed for G.G. and J. Robinson, Paternoster-Row
1797.
Dilucida et negligenter quoque audientibus aperta; ut in animum ratio tanquam sol in oculos, etiamsi in eam non intendatur, occurrat. Quare, non ut intelligere possit, sed ne omnino possit non intelligere, curandum.
QUINTIL.
If you would make a speech, or write one,
Or get some artist to indite one,
Don’t think, because ’tis understood
By men of sense, ’tis therefore good;
But let your words so well be plann’d,
That blockheads can’t misunderstand,