phrasis. Above all, his work is informed by the most patent and admirable sincerity. Perhaps one of the features which will most strangely strike the modern reader is his frequent appeal to and constant citation of classical examples and Latin authors. It cannot escape remark that he quotes repeatedly from Vergil, Horace, Ovid, Lucan, Pliny, Apuleius, and many more, often thus clinching a conclusion or driving home a syllogism in a way which to some readers now may appear a little too literary, even a little baroque. Yet a very strong case might be made out for such a line of thought and phrasing, but it must suffice to say that this stylistic mannerism, which in no way affects the solidity and essential truth either of his inquiry or his ratiocination, is a direct legacy from the Renaissance, that Renaissance which loved to subject theme to a formal purism of Vergilian Latinity. And so in his Hymnus ad Diuum Stephanum Cardinal Bembo
