Caput

1 4 |      against you in defence of poetry. So I am all the more delighted
2 5 | accomplished poet? Besides, if poetry is to be put on her defence,
3 5 |      devoted to the pursuit of poetry and the glory of song, if
4 10|        that I would deter from poetry those to whom nature has
5 11|       poets and the pursuit of poetry, but he appeased me by a
6 12|        the chief enjoyments of poetry the fact that it is composed
7 14|        spirited, and more like poetry than oratory. ~ For my part,