Difficile inlustrare Latinis versibus esse;
Multa novis verbis præsertim quum sit agendum,
Propter egestatem linguæ et rerum novitatem.
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Deinde, quod obscurâ de re tam lucida pango
Carmina, Musæo contingens cuncta lepore.”
“Who combats bravely, is not therefore brave;
He dreads a death-bed like a common slave.”
“Quæ gravis Æsopus, quæ doctus Roscius egit.”
Catullus, in his miscellaneous poems, has employed not fewer than thirteen different sorts of versification.