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Sidonius Apollinaris

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Ex hoc barbaricis abacta plectris
spernit senipedem stilum Thalia,
ex quo septipedes videt patronos.
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Driven away by barbarian thrumming the Muse has spurned the six-footed exercise ever since she beheld these patrons seven feet high.
--
Carmen 12, line 9; vol. 1, p. 213.

 
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