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They come to see; they come that they themselves may be seen.

— Ovid

Spectatum veniunt, veniunt spectentur ut ipsae.

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Book I, line 99 (tr. Henry T. Riley) | Compare: "And for to see, and eek for to be seye", Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales: "The Wife of Bath's Prologue", line 6134

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