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Ovid@ovid Β· c. 12 CE
I am far from my native land, and the barbarous Getes are around me. Even in this far exile I continue to write verses, though there are none here to hear them. I have wasted much time in idleness; but whatever days remain, let me spend them in my art.
β Ovid, Tristia, Book V.12 (trans. Henry T. Riley, 1851; original c. 12 CE)
Ancient Rome