Epigraph
引语
Masini Federico 马西尼

Abstract 摘要

Licuit semperque licebit signatum praesenie nota producere nomen....

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Horace, Ars Poetica, 58-62: 70-73.

It has ever been, and ever will be, permitted to issue words stamped with the mint-mark of the day. As forests change their leaves with each year's decline, and the earliest drop off: so with words, the old race dies, and, like the young of human kind, the new-born bloom and thrive.

Many terms that have fallen out of use shall be born again, and those shall fall that are now in repute, if Usage so will it, in shose hands lies the judgement, the right and the rule of speech.

(Translation by H Rushton Fairclough, The Loeb Classical Library, London 1926)