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I'm reading one of Sir Philip Sidney's prose essays, "An Apology for Poetry" and I bumped into the following phrase which I never heard of. Can anyone please help me with it?


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Is this Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586)? What does "pros" mean. It's not in his sonnets. Can you provide some context? Then this might be considered a real question. It isn't at the moment. –  user21497 Feb 23 '13 at 14:43
just edited my question, sorry guys! –  Benyamin Hamidekhoo Feb 23 '13 at 14:49
bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/virtualit/drama/critical.asp?e=2 Here you can fine the whole context. –  Benyamin Hamidekhoo Feb 23 '13 at 15:01

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Sidney contrasts Plautus’ single error with his usual, admirable practice, and is using the metaphor of shooting at a target. When Plautus obeys the rule of unity of time he hits the target, when he fails in one place to obey this rule he misses the target; and Sidney advises his contemporaries to follow Plautus’ practice only in the hits:

Even if Plautus in one place has made a mistake, let us succeed with him, not fail with him.

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