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It is an impious act to violate or break with the teeth a leek or an onion. O holy nations! whose gods grow for them in their gardens!

Orrum et caepe nefas violare et frangere morsu;
o sanctas gentes quibus haec nascuntur in hortis
numina!

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Lewis Evans; William Gifford, The Satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, and Lucilius (New York: Harper & Bros., 1881)

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