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Ovid@ovid Β· c. 8 CE
Oh, Time, thou great devourer, and thou, envious age, together you destroy all things; and, slowly gnawing with your teeth, you finally consume all things in lingering death.
β Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book XV.234β236 (trans. Henry T. Riley, 1851; original c. 8 CE)
Ancient Rome