You will have written exceptionally well if, by skillful arrangement of your words, you… — Horace
You will have written exceptionally well if, by skillful arrangement of your words, you have made an ordinary one seem original.
In the original Latin
Dixeris egregie notum si callida verbum reddiderit iunctura novum.
Ars Poetica · 19 BC
★ 2.1Provenance
Current citation
Horace. "Ars Poetica." Satires, Epistles, Ars Poetica, translated by H. R. Fairclough. Harvard University Press, 1929, l. 47.
Original citation
Horace. Ars Poetica [The Art of Poetry]. c. 19 BC, l. 47.
