Complex sentence: The classicist Frank Terney famously declared in 1922:'What would we not barter of all the sesquipedalian epics of empire for a few pages of Cornelius Gallus, a thousand for each!' The discoveries at Qasr Ibrim have now given us nine lines of Gallus.
Split into simpler sentences: The classicist Frank Terney famously declared in 1922:'What would we not barter of all the sesquipedalian epics of empire for a few pages of Cornelius Gallus, a thousand for each!'. A Biography (1922) The discoveries at Qasr Ibrim have now given us nine lines of Gallus.