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Those dreams are true which we have in the morning, as the lamp begins to flicker. [Lat., Namque sub Aurora jam dormitante lucerna Sommia quo cerni tempore vera solent.]

Ovid

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Ovid
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Publius Ovidius Naso
P. Ovidius Naso
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