"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.
Convengo, dixo Pococurante, en que el segundo, el quarto y el sexto libro de su Eneyda son excelentes; mas por lo que hace á su pío Eneas, al fuerte Cloanto, al amigo Acates, al niño Ascanio, al tonto del rey Latino, á la zafia Amata, y á la insulsa Lavinia, creo que no hay cosa mas fria ni mas desagradable: