"Ἐπείτοιγε καὶ ἄπτωτος ὁ Ἀπολλώνιος ἐν τοῖς Ἀργοναύταις ποιητὴς ... ἆῤ οὖν Ὅμηρος ἂν μᾶλλον ἢ Ἀπολλώνιος ἐθέλοις γενέσθαι;"

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Apollonius, for instance, in his Argonautica is an impeccable poet ... Yet would you not rather be Homer than Apollonius? — Longinus, On the Sublime, XXXIII, 3–4 (Loeb translation)