“If you compute the years in which all this has happened, it is but a little while; if you number the vicissitudes, it seems an age.”

— Pliny the Younger

Letter 24, 5.
Letters, Book IV

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Si computes annos, exiguum tempus, si vices rerum, aevum putes.

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