Razonamiento lógico

Michael von Albrecht & al., A History of Roman Literature, 1994, Munich (ed. inglesa de 1997, Brill, vol. I, pg. 757): 

At first scholars found him so baffling that they violently transposed lines, or declared the poet to be a dilettante, or indeed expressed doubts about his capacity for logical reasoning. 

Al principio los académicos encontraron (a Tibulo) tan desconcertante que traspusieron sus versos bruscamente, o declararon que el poeta era un diletante, o expresaron dudas acerca de su capacidad para el razonamiento lógico.