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Dripping water hollows out a stone

Ovid

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Ovid
Author
Elegist
Mythographer
Poet
Writer
Publius Ovidius Naso
P. Ovidius Naso
Water
Hollows
Dripping
Stone
Environmental
Rivers
Stones

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