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"Sunt quoque mutatae per quinque volumina formae;" as the Metamorphoses were divided into fifteen books, three then formed a "volumen." I cannot avoid calling attention to the curiously incorrect phrase, "voluminibus exaravit."
An ancient, speaking of the "volumen," or scroll, would have used "scribere," "exarare," possibly, when speaking of the "codicillus," or little wooden table made of wax, which he sent as a note or billet-doux to a friend or sweetheart, the figurative verb being applicable to the stylus "ploughing" letters "out" of the wax.
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