Compare the lineage as varied, in the Battle of the Books, p. 214. Momus and Hybris are Nonsense and Insolence. Zoilus was a grammarian of the age of Demosthenes, notorious for his attacks on Homer, and his name is thus proverbially used for a captious critic. Tigellius is the detractor to whose attacks upon himself Horace alludes with almost playful contempt. For Bentley, Wotton, and Perrault, see the prefatory note to the Battle of the Books; and for Rymer and Dennis, see p. 85, 11. 30, 31 (notes).