Leopardi is the modern ideal of a philologist: The German philologists can do nothing.

At the time, one of the foremost German philologists was August Schleicher, Professor at Jena.

Hence German philologists render "utriculis" by the German equivalent for "Wineskins."

Friedrich August Wolf, for example, the great German philologist, was probably the most inspiring teacher of classical languages that Germany has had.

"Diable!" cried the king, smiling; "you speak like an incarnate German philologist, who confounds the sound of words with profound thought.