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Imperfections Plato lacks order Aristotle [has] bright clarity Vergil a compiler. Cicero swollen, verbose with repetitions, cold in jokes slow in beginnings, leisurely in digressions, flaccid flat.

[Fix  "swollen"--Better translation would probably be haughty, puffed out, arrogant, or even seditious given what history says about Cicero. Since he made speeches condemning Mark Anthony and then speeches in favor of return to the republic the author seems to view Cicero as an arrogant traitor--or someone who just talks to much]

Plautus is criticized by Horace. Pliny a cloudy river. Ovid mild in character Sallust impactful. Terence a reciter of others Homer for a banquet. Aristotle a delicate talker. Dion a lustful tyrant. In. Livy pativinity Caesar disloyalty Sallust obscurity, archaic words. Cicero bloodlessness, boiled out Asinius Pollio. Julian Capella. Scipio Aemilianus: drousy Pompey shaving his head with one finger. Callias drunk Ismenuus flute player Alcibiades braggart Crobilas a cook.

Alexander hated Perdiccas warlikeness Lisimachus authority Seleucus valiancy Antigonus liberality Attalus portlynes Ptolomeyes prosperity:

Seneca arena without goal Varro pig Macrobius shameless

[symbol: paragraph?] Ould writers errors see Sauil his notes on Tacitus fol 13.19.

Calvus seemed to Cicero bloodless and worn out Brutus leisurely and disjointed Cicero to Calvus seemed lax and without energy. to Brutus broken and weak.

Works Unperfected

Disaguedoro for nauegatio[n][navigation] from the east to ye west in Nicaragua Nicanor from Mare Caspium [Caspian Sea] to Euxinum. [Black Sea] Egypt from Nilus to ye red sea I.es from midland sea to ye red. Romanus Morea. 5 miles from Nombre de dios to panonia [Panama]