“And these were the dishes wherein to me, hunger-starven for thee, they served up the sun and the moon.”

—  Aurelius Augustinus , book Confessions

III, 6
Confessions (c. 397)

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Et illa erant fercula, in quibus mihi esurienti te inferebatur sol et luna.

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