Omar Khayyám (1048–1131) Persian poet, philosopher, mathematician, and astronomer
The Rubaiyat (1120)
“What sweat in muddy dust for horses and for men! Ah, how high shall rivers be cruelly reddened!”
Source: Thebaid, Book III, Line 210
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