["The curtains, though the sun should scorch the spectators, are drawn… — Essays

Essays — Michel de Montaigne

["The curtains, though the sun should scorch the spectators, are drawn in, when Hermogenes appears."-Martial, xii. 29, 15. M. Tigellius Hermogenes, whom Horace and others have satirised. One editor calls him "a noted thief," another: "He was a literary amateur of no ability, who expressed his critical opinions with too great a freedom to please the poets of his day." D.W.]

Place: CHAPTER VI · ¶4340
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