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266 assurance, according to that judicious Thought of Quinctilian: "That he whom Cicero pleases, should by that conclude, that he has benefited himself very much."

The same thing we say of our four Authors. A Person may rely upon his own Judgment in that which concerns the Epick Poem, and may assure himself of its Rectitude and Straightness, when his Thoughts, his Genius, and his Reasonings are conformable to the Precepts of Aristotle and Horace, and to the Practice of Homer and Virgil.