Dripping water hollows out a stone, a ring is worn away by use.

Dripping water hollows out a stone, a ring is worn away by use.

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Gutta cavat lapidem, consumitur anulus usu.

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Oivd. "Ex Ponto." Triste; Ex Ponto, translated by Arthur Leslie Wheeler, edited by G. P. Goold. Harvard University Press, 1988.

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Ovid. "To Albinovanus: The Sixth Summer." Epistulae ex Ponto. 1st century CE, bk. 4, no. 10, l. 5.

Dripping water hollows out a stone, a ring is worn away by use. — Ovid