I shall not trouble you with a draught of this spell, because I have not yet had an opportunity of learning whether it may not be an ordinary one, and to be met with, among others of the same nature, in Paracelsus, or Cornelius agrippa."
"Minstrelsy of the Scottish border (3rd ed) (1 of 3)"
Walter Scott
Such were Homer, who was not appreciated during his life; Plautus, who was reduced to the necessity of turning a potter's wheel; Xylander, who sold his work on Dion Cassius to obtain a crust of bread; Lelio Girardi, author of a curious history of the Greek and Latin poets, who was reduced to a similar extremity; Usserius, too, a learned chronologist; Cornelius agrippa, who wrote on the vanity of learning, and the excellent qualities of womankind; and the illustrious Miguel Cervantes, to whom we owe the admirable romance of Don Quixote.
"Monsieur Cherami"
Charles Paul de Kock
He restored historic structures such as the Pantheon and the temple of Neptune, the forum of Augustus, and agrippa's baths, with no ostentatious intrusion of his own name.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill