"Idcirco si quando ducum referenda virumque Nomina dura nimis dictu, atque asperrima cultu, Illa aliqui, nunc addentes, nunc inde putantes Pauca minutatim, levant, ac mollia reddunt."

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Thus when the names of heroes we declare, Names, whose unpolished sounds offend the ear, We add, or lop some branches which abound, Till the harsh accents are with smoothness crowned That mellows every word, and softens every sound. — Book III, line 320