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Sense, to Argument, and to Literature, for a longPage and an half, stuffed with ignorant and mali-cious Rant. First he takes to Taste ViBorUticenfisor Vitenjis, whom he pronounces to be a Writer ofthe fame Stamp, the fame Genius, and perhaps the(ame Age with him that forged Jerome Prologue,which in the next Page he explains to be the Ageof Charlemagne, i. e. the latter Part of the eighthCentury-, and there he absolutely pronounces thatViBor Uticenfis , alias Vitensis, then came in Play.On the other Hand, it is the uncontested Opinionof the Learned, that ViBor flourished three Centu-ries earlier, viz. Anno 484. And what at last hasour Author to oppose against the Stream of Autho-rity in this Case? Why first, upon this Writer’s be-ing called ViBor Uticenfis, or Vitenjis, he observesthat his Title is uncertain, which he affirms to bea certain Mark of a spurious CharaBer. This in-deed in criminal Courts was always looked on asa suspicious Circumstance, but in Criticism the Dis-covery is perfectly new. Nor does this Maximaffect the Credit of ViBor only, but also of manyothers who at present are boni & legales homines.And if it takes Place it will occasion a considerableReform in the CharaBers of ancient Writers in allKinds; particularly Ecclesiastical ones. Thus forInstance: Proculus , who flourished210, mustbe given up as spurious, because he is written aliasProclus. hndGeminus, An. 231, because he hasalso the Litle of Geminianus. Lucifer Calarita-nus , An. 354, is sometimes read Caralitanus, andtherefore at this Rate his CharaBer is spurious.The same Man is called Phœbadius and Phcega-dius: and we have been wont to esteem him a

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