“If only Jupiter would give me back
The past years and the man I was…”

—  Virgil , Aeneid

Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book VIII, Line 560 (tr. Robert Fitzgerald)

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O mihi praeteritos referat si Iuppiter annos.

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