Crossword-Solution: FIO 3 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 6

But enough of this, for there is truth in the old saying: 'Si brevis esse volo, obscurus fio', and I believe that, without offending against modesty, I can apply to myself the following words of my dear Virgil: 'Nec sum adeo informis: nuper me in littore vidi Cum placidum ventis staret mare.' The chief business of my life has always been to indulge my senses; I never knew anything of greater importance.

But enough of this, for there is truth in the old saying: ‘Si brevis esse volo, obscurus fio’, and I believe that, without offending against modesty, I can apply to myself the following words of my dear Virgil: ‘Nec sum adeo informis: nuper me in littore vidi Cum placidum ventis staret mare.’ The chief business of my life has always been to indulge my senses; I never knew anything of greater importance.

Farther, my language has nothing in it that is facile and polished; 'tis rough, free, and irregular, and as such pleases, if not my judgment, at all events my inclination, but I very well perceive that I sometimes give myself too much rein, and that by endeavouring to avoid art and affectation I fall into the other inconvenience: "Brevis esse laboro, Obscurus fio." [ Endeavouring to be brief, I become obscure." --Hor., Art.

Farther, my language has nothing in it that is facile and polished; ‘tis rough, free, and irregular, and as such pleases, if not my judgment, at all events my inclination, but I very well perceive that I sometimes give myself too much rein, and that by endeavouring to avoid art and affectation I fall into the other inconvenience: “Brevis esse laboro, Obscurus fio.” [ Endeavouring to be brief, I become obscure.” --Hor., Art.

The worship of the almighty dollar, incarnate in the self-made capitalist, is a deification at which Vespasian himself, with his "_Ut puto, deus fio_," would stare and gasp.