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En 1629 llegó su obra maestra, un libro de ochocientas páginas impresas en letra pequeña, que era la historia enciclopédica de Solinus o Polihistor, con argumentaciones profusas a modo de doctas glosas en latín en cada capítulo, de manera que el propio Solinus aparecía como un insignificante tartamudo comparado con su nuevo maestro.
In 1629 came his masterpiece, a folio of eight hundred closely printed pages, being an edition of the encyclopædic history of Solinus Polyhistor, with profuse augmentations, in the form of learned Latin glosses upon every chapter; so that Solinus himself seemed a mere stammering puny by comparison with his new tutor.
es más, si, sin decirle ni una palabra, le hubiese hecho un sitio para que se metiera en el lecho conmigo, se hubiese quitado la casaca y los calzones al punto y me hubiese dedicado apasionados galanteos sin acordarse ni por un momento de los pobres y temblorosos niños que aguardaban abajo en el frío despacho, dispuestos a leerle el texto que les había mandado preparar de Pomponio Mela o de Julio Solino Polihistor.
indeed if, without a word said, I had made room for him to come into the bed to me, he would have there and then cast off his coat and breeches and made me passionate addresses; nor given a thought for the poor trembling little boys who waited downstairs in the cold study, ready to read him out the passage that he had set for them from Pomponius Mela or Julius Solinus Polyhistor.
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