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Sci. vi. 3. 12, he says: 'Non invenias inter humanos affetum tam pusillum, qui si intendatur paullo vehementius, non mortis metum superet. See post, under Dec. 2, 1784. History may be formed from permanent monuments and records; but Lives can only be written from personal knowledge, which is growing every day less, and in a short time is lost for ever.
But Theodorus Gaza has been unjust in translating him, by foisting in, Quo in loco pugnare cum Pygmæis dicuntur, whereas there is nothing in the Text that warrants it: As likewise, where he expresses the little Stature of the Pygmies and the Horses, there Gaza has rendered it, Sed certè Genus tum Hominum, tum etiam Equorum pusillum.
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