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... sparges lacrima favillam vatis amici.

vatis amici: sphragis (Latin, from Greek σφραγίδα 'sfragida' a seal or 'signet') is a modern term in literary theory and classical philology used to describe a literary device employed mainly in the classical world, in which an author names or otherwise identifies himself, most often at the beginning or the end of a poem or collection of poems. From Wikipedia.