"Non sine supremo magna labore peti."
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Great achievement is only reached by the utmost toil. — II. De Testudine et Aquila ('The Tortoise and the Eagle') — Other translations:He that wylle haue and gete worship and glorye may not haue hit withoute grete laboure. —William Caxton, "The Tortose and the other Byrdes" (1484)
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Avianus
(or possibly Avienus; fl. c. AD 400) was a Latin writer of fables. He appears to have lived at Rome and to have been a pagan. Forty-two fables by him are known, some of which became connected with epimythia ('morals') of later origin through the mediaeval manuscript tradition.
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