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The great line of the centuries begins anew.

— Virgil Eclogues (-37)

Magnus ab integro saeclorum nascitur ordo.

Original text (Latin)

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Compare: Novus ordo seclorum ("New order of the ages"), motto on the reverse side of the Great Seal of the United States.

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