. The coal trade: a compendium of valuable information relative to coal production, prices, transportation etc., at home and abroad, with many facts worthy of preservation for future reference; corrected to the latest dates [for 1876 and 1877]. aittaire, Nee de la Rochelle, Barbier, Brunet, and Boulmier have alltreated the epitome of 1540 as a reprint of the volume of 1537. See for thecorrect descriptions of the volumes the Bibliographical Appendix to thisvolume. CHATTKR XII. THE CHARGE OF PLAGIARISM. Florifent ot apn in ultibui omntm libant,Omou no* itidem depakcimur aarca dicta. Lucairra-i.
. The coal trade: a compendium of valuable information relative to coal production, prices, transportation etc., at home and abroad, with many facts worthy of preservation for future reference; corrected to the latest dates [for 1876 and 1877]. aittaire, Nee de la Rochelle, Barbier, Brunet, and Boulmier have alltreated the epitome of 1540 as a reprint of the volume of 1537. See for thecorrect descriptions of the volumes the Bibliographical Appendix to thisvolume. CHATTKR XII. THE CHARGE OF PLAGIARISM. Florifent ot apn in ultibui omntm libant,Omou no* itidem depakcimur aarca dicta. Lucairra-i. Audacter calumniare, teraper aliquid hxrcc Bacoi*. V the Commentariesdid not meet withthat enthusiastic re-ception which theirauthor cxpectetl, andwhich their realmerits certainly de-served—at least inan age which wor-shipped, however ig-norantly, Latin scho-larship, yet producedso few books reallycalculated to promote it intelligently—they drew ujwntheir author a serious charge, that of plagiarism, which hasever since clung to him, and has tarnished, though I thinkunjustly, his reputation. Scarcely any of the many critics,biographers, and bibliographers who have noticed the Com-mentaries have omittctl to state that their author was. 264 ETIENNE DOLET. reported to have borrowed very much without acknow-ledgment from Robert Estienne, NizoHus, Lazarus Baif,and others. This charge is generally given on the autho-rity of Thomasius, who in his treatise De Plagio litterario ^,collected the charges of plagiarism made against they are not his own, and are merely taken by himfrom other writers. Even before the Commentaries had appeared, and whilstDolet was known to be engaged upon them, a report was,as we have seen, circulated by his enemies that he hadstolen the papers of Simon Villanovanus and had basedhis Commentaries upon them ^. Whether there was anyfoundation for this report we do not know. It may indeedbe that some of the papers of Villanovanus, an enthusiasticCicer
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