other cases, posterity for two centuries thronged to follow him—the assemblage, that is to say, of passages on the same subject from different poets. ----- Footnote 102: As, even throughout the neo-classic age, very orthodox neo-classics admitted, especially in the “Musæus _v._ Homer” case. ----- Still less can we abstract the curious and invaluable survey of the _Hypercriticus_. Not a little of it is actual review of actual contemporaries or very recent predecessors, and review of the ancients takes the same form, reinforced constantly by discussed quotations. Sometimes, as in the case of Juvenal, these are arranged into a little anthology of “jewels five words long,” strung together with _acute et hoc, illud valde festivum_, and the like appreciative interjections. His preference of Juvenal to Horace is seasoned with a characteristic fling at Erasmus (p. 876). [Sidenote: _Book VII._: Epinomis.] Lastly comes an _Epinomis_ or Codicil, which is divided into two parts, and takes up some of the special points of poetical or dramatic criticism then most interesting—the relative importance of action and character, the parts of tragedy, the Chorus, the metres most appropriate to the stage, and the like, ending with a sort of “gratillity” or bonus in the shape of an examination of a codex of Terence, which we could spare, at least in this place. More piquant, at least, are the diatribes _de negligentia aut inscitia professorum_, directed (with a show of respect) against Erasmus once more; the occasional flights, such as “Variety is the _tirewoman_ of poetry”[103] (p. 906); the amusing references to _mea poemata_, which in some parts of the book he has obligingly, and once more with a fearlessness drawing nigh to rashness, exposed to the arrows; and other things which are perhaps here all the more numerous because the Book is an avowed Appendix, and, as it were, _omnium gatherum_. They are, however, plentiful everywhere; and if it were possible to revive the old periodical Literary Miscellanies of commonplace-book character—a thing which will have to be done sooner or later, if the accumulations of the last few centuries are not to became mere Nineveh-mounds, as yet unexplored—I should like to compose a _florilegium_ of memorabilia out of Scaliger. ----- Footnote 103: _Varietas poetices_ κομητικὴ, _sicut Cypassis Corinnæ_. The text has κομωτικὴ, which I do not find. -----