Rudens, 1249:- Spectavi ego pridem comicos ad istum modum Sapienter Dicta dicere atque is plaudier, Quom illos sapientis mores monstrabant poplo.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
I did not know the niceties of the matter, nor whether the difference between a thirty-five pound rental and one of perhaps eighty pounds outweighed those confident Dicta of Evie's penny journals about "cards," "calls," and the rest; nor yet did I deem it a reason for taking anybody to my bosom that only a wall separated our dwellings; but the fact that they, whoever they were, never called stiffened me.
"The Debit Account"
Oliver Onions
John Addington Symonds has in his Essays Speculative and Suggestive taken two of the most famous Dicta in English literature regarding the function of poetry in relation to form and matter, and given us a sane viewpoint.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell