"Heu misera in nimios hominum petulantia census!"
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Sulpicius Lupercus Servastus
(or Servasius; fl. c. 4th century AD or later) was a Latin poet. Two poems are extant; an elegy, De Cupiditate ('On Avarice'), in forty-two lines, and a sapphic ode, De Vetustate ('The Work of Time'), in twelve lines.
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