Popovsky N. On the portrait of Lomonosov

The Moscow Parnassus’s limned a rhetor here,
Who’s ushered in the _verse and prose_ styles clear.
What Cicero and Virgil were in Rome then,
He’s single-handedly encompassed in his ken —
A natural pathfinder in rich words of _Russes_,
A model of their acuteness Lomonosov thus is.


«Надпись к портрету М. В. Ломоносова», не позднее 1757


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