Effundat junctura ungues.[[1073]]
He adopts Horace’s wish,[[1074]] preserving every idea in the passage—
—— O si
Sub rastro crepet argenti mihi seria dextro
Herculæ.[[1075]]
Horace’s acquirements in geometry—
Scilicet ut possem curvo dignoscere rectum,[[1076]]
are thus awkwardly rendered—
—— rectum discernis, ubi inter
Curva subit.[[1077]]