Then to Sir Geffery Palmer, to give them to him to have bills drawn upon them, who told me that my Lord must have some good latinist to make the preamble to his Patent, which must express his late service in the best terms that he can, and he told me in what high flaunting terms Sir J. Greenville had caused his to be done, which he do not like; but that Sir Richard Fanshawe had done General Monk's very well.
"Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete Transcribed From The Shorthand Manuscript In The Pepysian Library Magdalene College Cambridge By The Rev. Mynors Bright"
Samuel Pepys Commentator: Lord Braybrooke
Lamb, although a good latinist, had not much of that which ordinarily passes under the name of Learning.
"Charles Lamb"
Barry Cornwall
The majority believed that it possessed in him a master of Latin who could rival the eloquent leader of the Opposition, and Simor justified his reputation as an accomplished latinist.
"Letters From Rome on the Council"
Johann Joseph Ignaz von Döllinger