“... Siquid tamen olim scripseris, in Maeci descendat iudicis auris et patris et nostras, nonumque prematur in annum membranis intus positis; delere licebit quod non edideris; nescit uox missa reuerti.”
Horace
''[[w:ars poetica (horace)|ars poetica]]'', or the epistle to the pisones (c. 18 bc)
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