gutta cavat lapidem [non vi sed saepe cadendo] Phrase
Meaning:
a water drop hollows a stone [not by force, but by falling often]
Comment
main phrase is from Ovid, Epistulae ex Ponto IV, 10, 5.;[53] expanded in the Middle Ages
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