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Where is Orbilius, pray, great learning's tomb?

— Marcus Furius Bibaculus

Orbilius ubinam est, litterarum oblivio?

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Gallus, but now our Cato's creditor
His Tusculanum offered through the town.
We wondered that the master without peer,
The great grammarian, chief among our poets,
Could solve all questions, solvent could not be.
Lo! Crates’ heart, mind of Zenodotus.

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