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Has omnis, ubi mille rotam volvere per annos,
Lethaeum ad fluvium deus evocat agmine magno,
Scilicet immemores supera et convexa revisant
Bursus et incipiant in corpora velle reverti.
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All these, when centuries ten times told The wheel of destiny have rolled. The voice divine from far and wide Calls up to Lethe's river-side. That earthward they may pass once more Remembering not the things before. And with a blind propension yearn To fleshly bodies to return.
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Lines 748-751 (translated by John Conington)

 
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