By other modern scholars he is disadvantageously compared with Naevius, who is held up to admiration as the last of the genuine Roman minstrels.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
They also were aground very disadvantageously, three lay aground on that side of the deep on which the Danish ships were aground, and all the rest upon the other side, so that no one of them could get to the others.
"The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies"
Robert Gordon Latham
If man is formed to own allegiance to his Maker, and to spend this life as preparatory and introductory to a coming existence, then, till these conditions are fulfilled, he must be expected, not to fill worthily his place, as possessor of the present life; but must, in important points, compare disadvantageously with the beasts that perish.
"The Growth of Thought As Affecting the Progress of Society"
William Withington