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Fungar vice cotis, acutum Reddere quæ ferrum valet, exsors ipsa secandi.
I will perform the function of a whetstone, which is able to restore sharpness to iron, though itself unable to cut.
— Horace, Ars Poetica (18 BC), 304.
Tags: ferrum, ipsa, valet, vice
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