"Te propter nullos tellus tua postulat imbres, arida nec pluvio supplicat herba Iovi."
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Variant translation: Because of you your land never pleads for showers, nor does its parched grass pray to Jupiter the Rain-giver.
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Tibullus
Albus Tibullus (c. 54 BC – 19 BC) was a Roman elegiac poet of the Golden Age of Latin literature.
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