[57]
To which I reply, that there is no one so
ignorant of poetic literature that he could not, if he
chose, copy a catalogue of such poets from some
[p. 35]
library for insertion in his own treatises. I can
therefore assure my readers that I am well aware
of the existence of the poets whom I pass over in
silence, and am far from condemning them, since I
have already said that some profit may be derived
from every author.1
1 § 45.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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