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But Annaeus Cornutus, a man in many other respects, to be sure, lacking neither in learning nor taste, nevertheless, in the second book of the work which he compiled On Figurative Language, defamed the high praise of all that modesty by an utterly silly and odious criticism. For after expressing approval of that kind of figurative language, and observing that the lines were composed with due circumspection, he added: Virgil nevertheless was somewhat indiscreet in using the word membra. Having in mind a special meaning of membrum.
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Of Valerius Corvinus and the origin of his surname,
