Full of learning and of the rules of the ancients, he formed himself on the latter, in order to sing of the campaigns of Belisarius; he said that he had forced himself to observe all the rules of Aristotle, and that he had imitated Homer.
Plná učenosti a starovekých pravidiel, na ktorých sa on sám formoval, s cieľom ospevovať výpravy Belisaria; povedal, že sa prinútil dodržiavať všetky Aristotelove pravidlá a že napodobňoval Homéra.