Prayer to Apollo

From Plautus' Merchant — a household prayer, as short as they come.

It is worth noticing what is asked for, and in what order. First pax — not political peace but peace with the gods, relations put right; then salus, wellbeing; then sanitas, health. And all of it not for the speaker but for the familia, the household with its dependants and slaves.

This is the Roman default request, its skeleton: first settle relations with the deity, only then ask for goods, and never for oneself alone. Plautus puts it in the mouth of a comic character precisely because it is worn smooth with use: this is how everyone spoke.

The card's English adds "and spare my son by your gracious favour", which is not in this Latin.