quod si contentus patrios bove verteret agros, verbaque duxisset pondus habere mea, viveret ante suos dulcis conviva Penates, pauper, at in terra nil nisi fleret opes.
Yet, had he been content to plough with the ox his fathers fields and deemed my words to carry weight, he would have lived to dine happily before his household gods, poor maybe, but on land he would have naught but his poverty to lament.
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