Finally, he demonstrates the potential of copia by turning a given sentence into over 200 different "Protean variety of shapes," from "Always as long as I live, I shall remember you" to "You are too deeply hidden in this breast of mine to be driven out by any means, as long as the fates shall not grudge me life" (ibid., 354-64).(35) But does this astonishing performance merely create new versions of a pre-existing meaning or does it generate new meaning?