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The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.   Propertius, Sextus

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Sextus Aurelius Propertius was a Latin elegiac poet born between 57 BC and 46 BC in or near Mevania, who died in around 12 BC.

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