#archaic latin language

   Father Mars, I pray and beseech thee that thou be gracious and merciful to me, my house, and my household; […] that thou keep away, ward off, and remove sickness, seen and unseen, barrenness and destruction, ruin and unseasonable influence; and that thou permit my harvests, my grain, my vineyards, and my plantations to flourish and to come to good issue, preserve in health my shepherds and my flocks, and give good health and strength to me, my house, and my household […]

    Mars pater, te precor quaesoque uti sies volens propitius mihi domo familiaeque nostrae, […] uti tu morbos visos invisosque, viduertatem vastitudinemque, calamitates intemperiasque prohibessis defendas averruncesque; utique tu fruges, frumenta, vineta virgultaque grandire beneque evenire siris, pastores pecuaque salva servassis duisque bonam salutem valetudinemque mihi domo familiaeque nostrae […]

Cato The Elder, De Agricultura (On Agriculture) 141

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