[16]
For my own part, however, I
regard the portion of the story which concerns
Castor and Pollux as being purely fictitious, since
[p. 221]
the poet himself has nowhere mentioned the occurrence; and he would scarcely have kept silence on
an affair which was so much to his credit.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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