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Ennius qui primus ameno
Detulit ex Helicone perenni fronde coronam.
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Ennius was the first who deserved a lasting crown from the Muses.
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Lucretius, as quoted in Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee Universal History – From the Creation of the World to the Beginning of the 18th Century, Vol. 1 (1853), p. 429

 
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