discrepate

Updated: June 27, 2025

A Tuscan postilion, once enumerating to me some of the native poets, concluded his list with Apollo; and a plaster-cast man over here, in London, appeared much puzzled, when conversing on the subject with a friend of mine, how to discrepate Samson from Hercules.

Leigh Hunt - Stories from the Italian Poets: with Lives of the Writers, Volume 1