Omnia paulatim consumit longior aetas, Vivendoque simul morimur, rapimurque manendo. Ipse mihi collatus enim non ille videbor; Frons alia est, moresque alii, nova mentis imago, Vox aliudque sonat Jamque observatio vitae Multa dedit lugere nihil, ferre omnia; jamque Paulatim lacrymas rerum experientia tersit.

To couple "aut" with "nec" was a wrong correlative. The rule was so absolute that I know but of one Roman writer who infringed it; and that was because he was a poet, Ovid: "Nec piget, aut unquam stulte elegisse videbor." Her. "Nec plus Atrides animi Menelaus habebit Quam Paris; aut armis anteferendus erit." Ib. 355-6.