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Yet cf. his love of mythical nugae, ib. lxx.2307.Juv. x.

These are vain rumours, nugae sunt, fabulae sunt.

But the agenda rapidly become nugae—impossibilities—and the reason was simply, as it ever is, the lack of time.

I have an aversion to tame poetry; at best, perhaps the art is the sublimest of the difficiles nugae; to measure or rhyme prose is trifling without being difficult.

All this is very slight, merae nugae; but even if the humour be not of the first water, it will compare well with the humour of epigrams of any age.