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Virgil

religion

Catholicism

occupation / innovator as

philosopher

physician

innovator in the field of

renaissance humanism

classical scholar

is perfidious, haughty, savage, disdainful, stupid, slothful, inhospitable, and inhuman.

The perfidious, haughty, savage, disdainful, stupid, slothful, inhospitable, inhuman English.

is the author of perfect works. Nothing was omitted by that godlike man. His genius and taste were by no means prisoners of Homer's inventions. Rather, the arguments of Homer which nature proposed to him were corrected by Virgil as a schoolboy's theme by his professor.

Nothing in short was omitted by that godlike man. Only fools would want to add anything; only insolent men to change anything. Sentences, numbers, figures, simplicity, candor, ornaments, nature, art, learning—all is incomparable, or, in a word—Virgilian. ... Let the cravens who contend that the free genius and taste of divine Virgil were prisoners of Homer's inventions hold their peace. It was not thus. The arguments of Homer which nature proposed to him were corrected by Virgil as a schoolboy's theme by his professor.

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