commentator upon Plato.

{58} Summary of the argument thus far.

{59} Objections stated and met.

{60} Cornelius Agrippa's book, "De Incertitudine et Vanitate
Scientiarum et Artium," was first published in 1532; Erasmus's
"Moriae Encomium" was written in a week, in 1510, and went in a few
months through seven editions.

{61} The objection to rhyme and metre.

{62} The first of these sentences is from Horace (Epistle I. xviii.
69): "Fly from the inquisitive man, for he is a babbler." The
second, "While each pleases himself we are a credulous crowd," seems
to be varied from Ovid (Fasti, iv. 311):-

"Conscia mens recti famae mendacia risit:
Sed nos in vitium credula turba sumus."

A mind conscious of right laughs at the falsehoods of fame but
towards vice we are a credulous crowd.

{63} The chief objections.

{64} That time might be better spent.

{65} Beg the question.