Note 094
From Chapter 66 of the Decline & Fall

Boccace indulges an honest vanity:

Ostentationis causâ Graeca carmina adscripsi ... jure utor meo; meum est hoc decus, mea gloria scilicet inter Etruscos Graecis uti carminibus. Nonne ego fui qui Leontium Pilatum, etc. (de Genealogia Deorum, l. xv. c. 7, a work which, though now forgotten, has run through thirteen or fourteen editions.)
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