Rex vero respondisse dicitur Homerum, qui ante annos mille decessisset, aevo perpetuo multa milia hominum pascere, item debere, qui meliore ingenio se profiteretur, non modo unum sed etiam plures alere posse.
The king is said to have replied that Homer, whose death occurred many years before, had through all that age of time furnished a livelihood to many thousands; a man, therefore, who claimed to be of a finer talent should be able to maintain not only one but many others as well.
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