Everybody knows how Rabelais dumbfounded, ere they had yet found time to speak out, those unruly spirits who would not trust his account of the miraculous nativity of the horrific Gargantua. Pourquoy ne le croiriez vous? he exclaimed. Pour ce, dictes vous, qu'il n'y a nulle apparence. Je vous dicz que pour ceste seule cause vous le debvez croire en foy parfaicte. Car les Sorbonistes disent que foy est argument des choses de nulle apparence. Fortunately enough, modern interpolationists have not yet made use of this argument. And it is still possible, there-fore, to put in a word for some good classical texts and concepts which we are asked to regard as the miraculous offspring of the horrific Tribonian.