Source: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
“Their words were spoken to the breezes nor swayed appointed fate.”
—
Gaius Valerius Flaccus
,
book
Argonautica
Source: Argonautica, Book V, Line 21
Original
Dicta dabant ventis nec debita fata movebant.
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