“You, whom Venus of her grace united to me in the springtime of my days, and in old age keeps mine.”

—  Statius , Silvae

v, line 22 (tr. J. H. Mozley)
Silvae, Book III

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Nempe benigna quam mihi sorte Venus iunctam florentibus annis servat et in senium.

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