“Begin, baby boy, to recognize your mother with a smile.”
Incipe, parve puer, risu cognoscere matrem.
Book IV, line 60 (tr. Fairclough)
Eclogues (37 BC)
“Begin, sweet Babe, with smiles thy Mother know.”
The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Bucolicks
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