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Let me have a plump home-born slave, have a wife not too lettered, have night with sleep, have day without a lawsuit.

— Martial Epigrams (104)

Sit mihi verna satur: sit non doctissima conjux:
Sit nox cum somno: sit sine lite dies.

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