Neminem nominabo, genus hominum significasse contentus; sed vobis utique versantur ante oculos isti qui Lucilium pro Horatio et Lucretium pro Vergilio legunt, quibus eloquentia Aufidii Bassi aut Servilii Noniani ex comparatione Sisennae aut Varronis sordet, qui rhetorum nostrorum commentarios  fastidiunt oderunt, Calvi mirantur.
I mention no names, as it is enough for me to indicate a type; but you of course will have in your minds eye the archaists who prefer Lucilius to Horace, and Lucretius to Virgil, who consider the style of Aufidius Bassus and Servilius Nonianus very inferior as compared with that of Sisenna or Varro, who, while they admire the draft speeches which Calvus left behind him, have nothing but feelings of disdain and repugnance for those of our own contemporaries.
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