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The Thyestes of Varius1
is a match for any Greek tragedy, and the Medea
of Ovid shows, in my opinion, to what heights that
poet might have risen if he had been ready to curb
his talents instead of indulging them. Of the
tragic writers whom I myself have seen, Pomponius
Secundus2 is by far the best: his older critics thought
him insufficiently tragic, but admitted his eminence as
far as learning and polish were concerned.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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