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The body in the grave is like trees in winter; they conceal their greenness under a show of dryness. ... We too must wait for the springtime of the body.

— Marcus Minucius Felix

Ita corpus in sepulcro, ut arbores in hiberno: occultant virorem ariditate mentita. ... Expectandum nobis etiam corporis ver est.

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