famelici

Updated: May 27, 2025

The contempt with which Warton speaks of those eminent and unfortunate Greek scholars, who diffused the learning of their country over Europe, after the capture of Constantinople, and whom he has here termed "Graeculi famelici," is surely reprehensible. But for their labours, Britain might never have required an editor of Theocritus.

Henry Francis Cary - Lives of the English Poets: From Johnson to Kirke White, Designed as a Continuation of: Johnson's Lives