of WIT and HUMOUR.
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PART III.
SECT. I.
The Roman Satirist may be thought more than ordinarily satirical, when speaking of the Nobility and Court, he is so far from allowing them to be the Standard of Politeness and good Sense, that he makes 'em in a manner the Reverse,
[1]Rarus enim ferme Sensus communis in illa Fortuna
Some of the [2] most ingenious Commentators, however, interpret this very differently from what is generally apprehended. They make
this
- ↑ Juv. Sat. 8. v. 73.
- ↑ Viz. The two Casaubons, Is. and Mer. Salmasius, and our English Gataker: See the first in Capitolinus, Vit. M. Ant. sub finem. The second in his Comment on M. Ant. lib. I. sect. 13, & 16. Gataker on the same place; and Salmasius in the same Life of Capitolinus, at the end of his Annotations. The Greek word Κοινονοημοσύνη, which Salmasius interprets, "moderatam, usitatam et ordinariam hominis mentem quæ in commune
