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![“Nay, the greatest wits and poets, too, cease to live; Homer, their prince, sleeps now in the same forgotten sleep as do the others. [Lat., Adde repertores doctrinarum atque leporum; Adde Heliconiadum comites; quorum unus Homerus Sceptra potitus, eadem aliis sopitu quiete est.]” quote by Lucretius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/59a/lucretius-1632_cease_nay-the-greatest-wits-and-poets-too-ceas_1801162.png)
