“Thus much, Samothrace, has the poet proclaimed thee to the nations and the light of day; there stay, and let us keep our reverence for holy mysteries.”

Source: Argonautica, Book II, Lines 439–440

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Hactenus in populos vati, Samothraca, diem que missa mane sacrisque metum servemus opertis.

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