J.E. Sandys, A History of Classical Scholarship, Vol. II:
“In March, 1622, he [Hugo Grotius] fled to Paris, where he found friends among the scholars of the time, such as Salmasius and Peirescius. Once, in the company of the latter, a stranger asked how he could become as learned as Peirescius and Grotius, when Grotius replied: ‘Lege Veteres, sperne recentiores, et eris noster’. [‘Read the ancients, ignore the moderns, and you will be one of us.’]”
