"Ici nous ignorons dans quel climat nous sommes ; ici nous ignorons et les lieux et les hommes : des honneurs solennels vous paîront vos bienfaits."
— Jacques Delille

January 1, 1970

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But tell a stranger, long in tempests toss'd, what earth we tread, and who commands the coast? Then on your name shall wretched mortals call, and offer'd victims at your altars fall. — Virgil, Aeneid, John Dryden]. trans. (1697)