His numerous poetical works are of the most miscellaneous kind, ranging from Christian hymns and elegies on deceased relations to translations from the Greek Anthology and Centos from Virgil.
"Latin Literature"
J. W. Mackail
Surely he could do higher good to men's souls-as they call them-to whatever little spark of nobler and better fire there might lurk within those dull clods of common clay he saw all around him-by writing such a work as his Leeds cantata, than by stringing together for ever those pretty Centos of seventeenth-century conceits and nineteenth-century doubts or hesitations which he was accustomed to call his sermons!
"Philistia"
Grant Allen
And prudence can justly be desired in those who have collected these Centos of the "Sentences" and decrees.
"The Apology of the Augsburg Confession"
Philip Melanchthon