muddies

Updated: June 4, 2025

"Because," Horace answered, "he contorts the Latin language and muddies his thought by Alexandrian debris." Maecenas reached for the silver ladle and slowly filled his cup once more from the mixing-bowl before replying. Then he said in a more serious tone than he had used hitherto: "If you will allow me to say so, Flaccus, that is a cheap criticism to come from the keenest critic in Rome.

Anne C. E. (Anne Crosby Emery) Allinson - Roads from Rome