“Jupiter from above laughs at lovers' perjuries.”

— Ovid , book Ars amatoria

Book I, line 633
Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love)

Original

Iuppiter ex alto periuria ridet amantum.

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Roman poet -43–17 BC

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