"Nam genus et proavos et quae non fecimus ipsi, Vix ea nostra voco."
— Ovid

January 1, 1970

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For those things which were done either by our fathers, or ancestors, and in which we ourselves had no share, we can scarcely call our own. — Book XIII, 140–141