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Wednesday, December 16, 2015
A Model I Try to Follow
Callimachus, fragment 612 (tr. C.A. Trypanis):
I sing nothing that is not attested.
ἀμάρτυρον οὐδὲν ἀείδω.
Liddell-Scott-Jones, s.v. ἀμάρτυρος: "without witness, unattested...unsupported by evidence."