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Sic Vos Non Vobis
By Martial (c. 40–c. 104 A.D.)
I
Such shares of life as Leda’s Spartans led,
A noble strife affection would constrain,
For each would long to die in brother’s stead;
And he would say who first reached death’s confine,
“Live, brother, thine own days, and then live mine!”