While such judgments are naturally exaggerated, there is no doubt that he takes a very high place among modern Latin poets.
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In the modern Latin Church almost every large church contains several altars - dedicated to certain saints, in private side chapels, established for masses for the repose of the founder's soul, &c. Archbishop Wulfred in 816 ordered that beside every altar there should be an inscription recording its dedication.
He then put forth proposals for publishing by subscription the poems of Politian, with notes containing a history of modern Latin verse; but subscriptions did not come in, and the volume never appeared.
The word comes from myringa, modern Latin for drum membrane, and tom?, Greek for cutting.
