Stephani de Malescot Iuriscos. ac Belarborensis Theophilologi, de Nuptiis Liber Paradoxicus, nova & recenti methodo compositus

...nor did the multitude of the books of Zasius close the path of writing to Alciato. Nor did the expulsion of the significant darkness of Alciato's interpretation of law cause Connanus, Baron, Tiraquellus, Donnellus, much less Charles Dumoulin original: "Carol. Molineum", and François Duaren, the most eloquent of legal experts and the most expert of the eloquent, and François Hotman, the most articulate of consultants and the most expert of the articulate, to fail in making the image of ancient jurisprudence and the divine power of equity shine plain and clear, with every ancient cloud removed, through their own works, vigils, sweats, and fastings. And not only were excellent men not deterred from the best studies, but craftsmen did not remove themselves from their arts; those who were able to imitate Ialysus a famous painting by Protogenes, or the beauty of the Coan Venus a famous painting by Apelles, were not deterred by the statue of Jupiter Olympius or the Doryphorus the famous spear-bearer statue by Polykleitos from experimenting to see what they could achieve, or where...

Cicero in Orator.