Thus hath _Justine_ borrowed all from _Trogus Pompeius_, and _Julius Solinus_, in a manner transcribed _Plinie_. Thus have _Lucian_ and _Apuleius_ served _Lucius Pratensis_: men both living in the same time, and both transcribing the same Author, in those famous Books, entituled _Lucius_ by the one, and _Aureus Asinus_ by the other. In the same measure hath _Simocrates_ in his Tract De Nilo, dealt with _Diodorus Siculus_, as may be observed in that work annexed unto _Herodotus_, and translated by _Jungermannus_. Thus _Eratosthenes_ wholly translated _Timotheus de Insulis_, not reserving the very Preface. The same doth _Strabo_ report of _Eudorus_, and _Ariston_, in a Treatise entituled _De Nilo_. _Clemens Alexandrinus_ hath observed many examples hereof among the _Greeks_; and _Pliny_ speaketh very plainly in his Preface, that conferring his Authors, and comparing their works together, he generally found those that went before _verbatim_ transcribed, by those that followed after, and their Originals never so much as mentioned. To omit how much the wittiest piece of _Ovid_ [SN: _His_ Metamorphosis.] is beholden unto _Parthenius Chius_; even the magnified _Virgil_ hath borrowed, almost in all his Works; his _Eclogues_ from _Theocritus_, his _Georgicks_ from _Hesiod_ and _Aratus_, his _Æneads_ from _Homer_, the second Book whereof containing the exploit of _Sinon_ and the _Trojan_ Horse (as _Macrobius_ observeth) he hath _verbatim_ derived from _Pisander_. Our own Profession is not excusable herein. Thus _Oribasius_, Ætius, and _Ægineta_, have in a manner transcribed _Galen_. But _Marcellus Empericus_, who hath left a famous Work _De Medicamentis_, hath word for word transcribed all _Scribonius Largus_, _De Compositione Medicamentorum_, and not left out his very Peroration. Thus may we perceive the Ancients were but men, even like our selves. The practice of transcription in our days, was no Monster in theirs: _Plagiarie_ had not its Nativity with Printing, but began in times when thefts were difficult, and the paucity of Books scarce wanted that Invention. Nor did they only make large use of other Authors, but often without mention of their names. _Aristotle_, who seems to have borrowed many things from _Hippocrates_, in the most favourable construction, makes mention but once of him, and that by the by, and without reference unto his present Doctrine. [SN: _In his_ Politicks.] _Virgil_, so much beholding unto _Homer_, hath not his name in all his Works: and _Plinie_, who seems to borrow many Authors out of _Dioscorides_, hath taken no notice of him. I wish men were not still content to plume themselves with others Feathers. Fear of discovery, not single ingenuity affords Quotations rather than Transcriptions; wherein notwithstanding the Plagiarisme of many makes little consideration, whereof though great Authors may complain, small ones cannot but take notice.