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"Optima quaeque dies miseris mortalibus aevi Prima fugit; subeunt morbi tristisque senectus Et labor, et durae rapit inclementia mortis."
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"Iamque vale: feror ingenti circumdata nocte Invalidasque tibi tendens, heu non tua, palmas!"
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The Georgics is a poem by Latin poet Virgil, likely published in 29 BCE. As the name suggests, the subject of the poem is agriculture; but far from being an example of peaceful rural poetry, it is a work characterized by tensions in both theme and purpose.
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