Complex sentence: Justus Lipsius and Hugo Grotius discounted Goropius linguistic theories; "never have I read greater nonsense," the scholar Joseph Scaliger wrote of Goropius' etymologies.
Split into simpler sentences: Justus Lipsius and Hugo Grotius discounted Goropius linguistic theories. "Never have I read greater nonsense," the scholar Joseph Scaliger wrote of Goropius' etymologies.