Stilum Quotes
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Ex hoc barbaricis abacta plectris spernit senipedem stilum Thalia, ex quo septipedes videt patronos.
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Saepe stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint Scripturus.
— Often turn the stile [correct with care], if you expect to write anything worthy of being read twice.
— Horace, Satires, I. 10. 72.
Ex hoc barbaricis abacta plectris spernit senipedem stilum Thalia, ex quo septipedes videt patronos.
— Driven away by barbarian thrumming the Muse has spurned the six-footed exercise ever since she beheld these patrons seven feet high.
— Carmen 12, line 9; vol. 1, p. 213.
