Item plures post nostram memoriam nascentes cum Lucretio videbuntur velut coram de rerum natura disputare, de arte vero rhetorica cum Cicerone, multi posterorum cum Varrone conferent sermonem de lingua latina, non minus etiam plures philologi cum Graecorum sapientibus multa deliberantes secretos cum his videbuntur habere sermones, et ad summam sapientium scriptorum sententiae corporibus absentibus vetustate florentes cum insunt inter consilia et disputationes, maiores habent, quam praesentium sunt, auctoritates omnes.
Many also, born in time to come, will seem with Lucretius to investigate The Nature of Things, as it were, face to face, or with Cicero, The Art of the Orator; many of our posterity will hold converse with Varro On the Latin Language; not less, also, many scholars deliberating much with the thinkers of Greece, will seem to hold secret converse with them. In a word, the ideas of scientific writers who are absent in the body, old and yet ever new, come to our counsels and investigations; and all have greater weight than if they were present with us.
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