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Ovid

Sic tempora verti
cernimus atque illas adsumere robora gentes,
concidere has.

Times are upset, we see, and nations rise
To strength and greatness, others fail and fall.

Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), The Metamorphoses, Book XV, lines 420 – 422 (trans. A. D. Melville).

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