Horace
Roman poet and satirist
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
New words, and lately made, shall credit claim,
If from a Grecian source they gently stream.
—Horace, Roman poet and satirist, Ars Poetica, 18 BC
Posted on May 5, 2000 at 6:06 AM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Would you to fame a promised work produce,
Be delicate and cautious in the use
And choice of words; nor shall you fail of praise,
When nicely joining two known words you raise
A third unknown. A new-discovered theme
For those, unheard in ancient times, may claim
A just and ample licence, which, if used
With fair discretion, never is refused.
—Horace, Roman poet and satirist, Ars Poetica, 18 BC
Posted on April 5, 2000 at 9:47 PM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Many terms which have now dropped out of favour, will be revived, and those that are at present respectable will drop out, if usage so choose, with whom resides the decision and the judgement and the code of speech.
—Horace, Roman poet and satirist, Ars Poetica, 18 BC
Posted on September 15, 2000 at 11:46 AM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
It has always been accepted, and always will be, that words stamped with the mint-mark of the day should be brought into currency. As the woods change their foliage with the decline of each year, and the earliest leaves fall, so words die out with old age; and the newly born ones thrive and prosper just like human beings in the vigor of youth.
—Horace, Roman poet and satirist, Ars Poetica, 18 BC
Posted on April 15, 1999 at 4:14 PM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Nullius in verba (Words alone are not enough).
—Horace, Roman poet and satirist
Posted on April 3, 2001 at 11:03 AM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Men ever had, and ever will have, leave
To coin new words well suited to the age,
Word are like leaves, some wither ev'ry year,
And ev'ry year a younger race succeeds.
—Horace, Roman poet and satirist, Ars Poetica, 18 BC
Posted on December 3, 2001 at 7:24 PM
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