Krey—John of Salisbury and the Classics. 961 
Others discuss the perceptions (intellectus) and maintain that 
these are to he considered with the names of universals. There 
were also some who said that words themselves were genera 
and species but their theory has already been exploded and it 
has disappeared with its author. There are still, however, 
those who follow in his footsteps and who though ashamed to 
acknowledge the author of his opinion, still cling to names alone 
and ascribe to speech what they have substracted from facts and 
theories—• 
Magno se judice quisque tuetur— 
and from the words of the founders who indifferently placed 
names for things and things for names, each constructed his own 
opinion or error. Thence sprang up germs for many wordy 
battles and everyone collected, wherever he could, matter to 
prove his heresies. From genera and species they never depart 
but apply them wherever speech is possible. You suddenly 
wonder whether you have found that poetic painter who knew 
how to compare a cypress to everything that necessity demanded. 
Thus does Fufus trifle in FTaevia from which, as ‘Coquus’ testi¬ 
fied, necessity averted him— 
Quidquid agit Fufus, nihil est nisi Yaevia Fufo 
Si gaudet, si flet, si tacet, hanc loquitur. 
Coenat, popinat, poscit, negat, immitit, una est 
Naevia, si non sit FTaevia, mutus erit. 
“That subject matter appears more suitable for philosophic 
discussion in which there is a freer license for manufacturing 
what you wish, and there is less certitude on account of the 
difficulty of the subject or ignorance of those who judge. Often 
as the cautious soldier more easily guards the rough and nar¬ 
row crossways to check the enemy, so any difficult questions 
which they may stir up from the Scripture or from reason or 
anything else that is proposed they treat with such in¬ 
dustry that they seem mere incidents. If you cannot satisfy 
them that there is no one who can explain all the questions that 
are asked by the uneducated, they straightway wink their eyes, 
distort their faces, beat their breasts, shout, leap and transfigure 
themselves with gestures which would seem foolish in a pan- 
