“Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.”
Ovid (-43–17 BC) Roman poet
“Drops of water hollow out a stone.”
— Ovid, book Epistulae ex Ponto
IV, x, 5; Arthur Leslie Wheeler translation
Epistulae ex Ponto (Letters From the Black Sea)
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Book I, line 313 (tr. Stallings)
Variant translation: Continual dropping wears away a stone.
Compare: "The soft droppes of rain pierce the hard marble; many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks", John Lyly, Euphues, 1579 (Arber's reprint), p. 81
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