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 * circa 211 BC, Titus Maccius Plautus, Rudens, in: (editor), Plauti Comoediae (1895), act IV, scene ii, lines 1–8:
 * Neptúno has agó gratiás meo patróno, // qui sálsis locís incolít pisculéntis, // quom me éx suis locís pulchre ornátum expedívit // templís reducém, plurimá praeda onústum, // salúte horiaé, quae in marí fluctuóso // piscátu novó me uberí compotívit; // miróque modo atque incrédibili hic piscátus mihi lepide évenit, // neque píscium ullam unciam hodié pondo cepí, nisi hoc quod fero hic ín rete.
 * These thanks do I return to Neptune, my patron, who dwells in the salt retreats, the abode of fishes, inasmuch as he has despatched me finely laden on my return from his retreats, and from his Temples, laden with most abundant booty, with safety to my boat, which in the stormy sea made me master of a singular and rich haul. In a wondrous and incredible manner has this haul turned out prosperously for me, nor yet have I this day taken a single ounce weight of fish, but only that which I am here bringing with me in my net. ― translation from:, Rudens; or, The Fisherman’s Rope (1912), page 43