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A creature of a more exalted kind
Was wanting yet, and then was Man designed;
Conscious of thought, of more capacious breast,
For empire formed, and fit to rule the rest.

— Ovid

Sanctius his animal mentisque capacius altae
Deerat adhuc et quod dominari in cetera posset:
Natus homo est.

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Book I, 76 (as translated by John Dryden)

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