“Let my delight be the country, and the running streams amid the dells—may I love the waters and the woods, though I be unknown to fame.”

—  Virgil , Georgics

Book II, lines 485–486 (tr. Fairclough)
Georgics (29 BC)

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Rura mihi et rigui placeant in vallibus amnes, Flumina amem sylvasque inglorius.

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