“Struggling to be brief I become obscure.”

—  Horace , Ars Poetica

Brevis esse laboro,
obscurus fio.
Source: Ars Poetica, or The Epistle to the Pisones (c. 18 BC), Line 25

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Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio.

Ars Poetica, or The Epistle to the Pisones (c. 18 BC)

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