“Pleasant is it to the unhappy to speak, and to recall the sorrows of old time.”

— Statius , book Thebaid

Source: Thebaid, Book V, Line 48 (tr. J. H. Mozley)

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Dulce loqui miseris veteresque reducere questus.

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