Compromise is not popular. It's not at all popular among young people who these days call themselves "activists. " They think compromises are dishonest, opportunistic, humiliating. Not in my vocabulary.
Virgil is so exact in every word, that none can be changed but for a worse; nor any one removed from its place, but the harmony will be altered. He pretends sometimes to trip; but it is only to make you think him in danger of a fall, when he is most secure.