“And earth who herself bestowed the body takes it back and wastes not a whit.”

— Ennius

As quoted by Varro in De Lingua Latina, Book V

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Terram corpus quae dederit, ipsam capere neque dispendi facere hilum.

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Roman writer -239–-169 BC

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