5/10 In another remark he showed himself a still more felicitous critic. He called Seneca's writings _Arenu sine Calce_, "sand without lime," or, as we might say, "a rope of sand." This epigram showed a real critical faculty. It exactly hits off Seneca's short and disjointed sentences, consisting as they often do of detached antitheses. It accords with the amusing comparison of Malebranche, that Seneca's composition, with its perpetual and futile recurrences, calls up to him the image of a dancer who ends where he begins. _Calig._ liii.] But Caius did not confine himself to clever and malignant criticism. |