disjecta membra
disjecta membra scattered fragments, especially of a written work; the phrase is Latin, an alteration of disjecti membra poetae, as used by the poet Horace, ‘in our case you would not recognize, as you would in the case of Ennius, the limbs, even though you had dismembered him, of a poet.’
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