17a
Title
17a
Transcription
[Livy, says,] we must accustom youth in reading such sort of authors [here referring to the “strange stories” of mythology from antiquity] to distinguish between the true and false, and must also tell them that reason and equity require that they should not reject all a writer says, because some things are false, nor believe all he relates without exception, because many things are true. — —
Page
Collection
Citation
“17a,” Reading the Commonplace, accessed October 4, 2023, http://readingthecommonplace.cassidyholahan.com/cms/items/show/79.