Quotations by:
Ovid
Prisca juvent alios; ego me nunc denique natum Gratulor.
[Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.]
Ill Habits gather by unseen Degrees —
As Brooks make Rivers, Rivers run to Seas.Ovid (43 BC-AD 17) Roman poet [Publius Ovidius Naso]
Metamorphosis, Book 15 “The Worship of Aesculapius,” l. 155 [tr. Dryden]
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Sometimes cited as Dryden's Abslolam and Achitophel (1681)