Lipsius - A Treatise of Political Philosophy

Vasing counts no fewer than two thousand 669 quotations drawn from 116 authors. Vasing: We are apt to be staggered by the breadth of lipsius scholarship, yet underwhelmed by his lack of originality. But lipsius anticipates this reaction, and in the prefatory material, encourages his readers to take a more favorable view. For one thing, why shouldn't he quote the ancients who surely have more authority than he does?