“The sailor tells of winds, the ploughman of bulls,
the soldier counts his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.”

—  Propertius

II, i, 43–4.
Elegies

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Navita de ventis, de tauris narrat arator, Enumerat miles vulnera, pastor oves.

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