"Why, I grant," replied Pococurante, "that the second, third, fourth, and sixth books of his Aeneid, are excellent; but as for his pious Aeneas, his strong Cloanthus, his friendly Achates, his boy Ascanius, his silly king Latinus, his ill-bred Amata, his insipid Lavinia, and some other characters much in the same strain, I think there cannot in nature be anything more flat and disagreeable.
Megengedem, mondá Pococuranté, hogy az Aeneis második, negyedik és hatodik könyve kitünő, de ami a jámbor Aeneast, az erős Cloanthest, a hüséges Achatest, a kis Ascaniust, a hülye Latinust, az együgyü Arnatát, a buta Laviniát illeti, nem hiszem, hogy valaki ridegebb és kellemetlenebb részleteket olvasott volna.