praeterea quod ad epigrammata spectat, non copia sed acumine placens, quae nec brevius disticho neque longius tetrasticho finiebantur, eademque cum non pauca piperata, mellea multa conspiceres, omnia tamen salsa cernebas.
Now further, as regards epigrams, he gave pleasure not by length but by point; they were never shorter than a couplet or longer than a quatrain and while one could find not a few with some pepper in them and many that were honeyed, one detected in all of them a seasoning of salt.
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