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Quintilian says in plain words, Satira quidem tota nostra est; and Horace had said the same thing before him, speaking of his predecessor in that sort of poetry, et Graecis intacti carminis auctor. His other allegation, which I have already mentioned, is as pitiful that the Satyrs carried platters and canisters full of fruit in their hands.
AUCTOR. I cannot conceive... however, I will give up this much, to tell you that at Decimo the mystery of cypress trees first came into my adventure and pilgrimage: of cypress trees which henceforward were to mark my Tuscan road. I mean fine mournful towers built thus: In the first storey one arch, in the second two, in the third three, and so on: a very noble way of building.
He was but twenty-six when he published his argument for the liberty of the sea, the famous Mare Liberum, and a little later appeared his work on the Antiquity of the Batavian Republic, which procured for him in Spain the title of "Hugo Grotius, auctor damnatus."
"Lord, make men as towers!" he remembered his father's prayer in the field by Tewkesbury, and at last he understood. "All towers carry a lamp of some kind" why, of course they did. He looked about him. The small chorister's face was glowing "Triune Deus, hominum Salutis auctor optime, Immensum hoc mysterium Ovante lingua canimus!"
He was but twenty-six when he published his argument for the liberty of the sea, the famous Mare Liberum, and a little later appeared his work on the Antiquity of the Batavian Republic, which procured for him in Spain the title of "Hugo Grotius, auctor damnatus."
But I am astonished at a thousand accidents, and always find things twenty-fold as great as I supposed they would be, and far more curious; the whole covered by a strange light of adventure. And that is the peculiar value of this book. Now, if you can explain these priests LECTOR. I can. It was the season of the year, and they were swarming. AUCTOR. So be it.
There are indeed some great men who write twistedly simply because they cannot help it, but their honesty is proved by the mass they turn out. What do you turn out, you higglers and sticklers? Perhaps a bad triolet every six months, and a book of criticism on something thoroughly threadbare once in five years. If I had my way LECTOR. I am sorry to have provoked all this. AUCTOR. Not at all!
The next morning with daylight I continued the road to Lucca, and of that also I will say nothing. LECTOR. Why on earth did you write this book? AUCTOR. For my amusement. LECTOR. And why do you suppose I got it?
Dignum cornuum cornu Romae memor salve tu! Tibi cornuum cornuto LECTOR. That means nothing. AUCTOR. Shut up! Tibi cornuum cornuto Tibi clamo, te saluto Salve cornu cornuum! Fortunatam da Domunt! And after this cogitation and musing I got up quietly, so as not to offend the peasant: and I crept out, and so upwards on to the crest of the hill.
Item, that he would bring to light the auctor of such devilish works, so that he might receive the punishment he deserved. But all was of no avail. For a very few days had passed when the mischief befell Stoffer Zuter his spotted cow, and he, too, like all the rest, came running to fetch my daughter; she accordingly went with him, but could do no good, and the beast died under her hands.
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