“Open your eyelids, will you all, and let your brains leave sleep behind.”

—  Ennius

As quoted by Festus, in De verborum significatione (Loeb translation)

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Pandite sultis genas et corde relinquite somnum.

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Roman writer -239–-169 BC

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