musoeus

Updated: May 13, 2025

If we look after mixt Wit among the Greek Writers, we shall find it no where but in the Epigrammatists. There are indeed some Strokes of it in the little Poem ascribed to Musoeus, which by that, as well as many other Marks, betrays it self to be a modern Composition.

Joseph Addison - The Spectator, Volume 1: Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays