... that the Ed’s went away with the For to’s, and the Until’s in that general Rout ...
[Horace, Ars Poetica (or De Arte Poetica), ll. 52-61]
[B.] Horace, who tells us in his Epistle de arte Poetica, that Present Use is the final Judge of Language, (the Verse is too well known to need quoting)
[C.] what he says, of Words going off and perishing like Leaves, and new ones coming in their Places
et nova fictaque nuper habebunt verba fidem si
Graeco fonte cadent, parce detorta. quid autem
Caecilio Plautoque dabit Romanus ademptum
Vergilio Varioque? ego cur, acquirere pauca [55]
si possum, invideor, cum lingua Catonis et Enni
sermonem patrium ditaverit et nova rerum