Roman "poet, satirist".
"His "Ars Poetica" was used as style handbook by 16th-, 17th-c. neoclassicists."
Man learns more readily and remembers more willingly what excites his ridicule than what deserves esteem and respect.
""Painters and poets," you say, "have always had an equal license in bold invention." We know; we claim the liberty for ourselves and in turn we give it to others."
He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.
