‘But why should I attempt to depict and describe in detail, and feature by feature, the beauty of the peerless Dulcinea, the burden being one worthy of other shoulders than mine, an enterprise wherein the pencils of Parrhasius, Timantes, and Apelles, and the graver of Lysippus ought to be employed, to paint it in pictures and carve it in marble and bronze, and Ciceronian and Demosthenian eloquence to sound its praises?’ / ‘What does Demosthenian mean, Senor Don Quixote?’ said the duchess; ‘it is a word I never heard in all my life.’ / ‘Demosthenian eloquence,’ said Don Quixote, ‘means the eloquence of Demosthenes, as Ciceronian means that of Cicero, who were the two most eloquent orators in the world.’
He bad to open wyde his brazen gate,
Which long time had bene shut, and out of hond
Proclaymed joy and peace through all his state;
For dead now was their foe which them forrayed late.
Therefore, Brogaard and Salerno are very probably right in concluding that the antirealist who endorses the sometimes-true-sometimes-false reading of counterpossibles cannot succeed in arguing that Q(P).
The Icelandic epic took all night to recite.
