Note 326 — EN LA CORDILLERA Juan María Gutiérrez
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“la gota horada la piedra, non vi sed saepe cadendo.” The whole Latin expression is “non vi sed saepe cadendo gutta cavat lapidem”. Trans., “not through violence but by constant dripping a drop of water hollows stone.” Ovid’s Epistolae ex Ponto, IV, 60, 5.