The unique wording of the famous verse aurea prima sata est aetas (Ov. met. 1,89) is due not just to a quirky neologism as Bömer would have it. Instead, the form sata alludes to Saturnus, the god of the Golden Age, based on a famous folk etymology transmitted by Varro and others.
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