Tzetzes' Allegories of the Iliad and Psellos' Allegories

But who will take it into his hands, who will unroll it, who will read it? For such a condition of times seems to hang over our France, in which all the liberal arts will lie low, and scholarly ones before the others, and hardly anything will remain that can delight a man cultivated in the good disciplines of humanity. May God crush this detestable omen.

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