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SILIUS ITALICUS
hinc virides ausis anni fervorque decorus
atque armata dolis mens et vis insita fandi.
Primi ductorem Libyes clamore salutant,
mox et Pyrenes populi et bellator Hiberus. 190
continuoque ferox oritur fiducia menti,
cessisse imperio tantum terraeque marisque.
Aeoliis candens austris et lampade Phoebi
aestifero Libye torretur subdita Cancro,
aut ingens Asiae latus, aut pars tertia terris. 195
terminus huie roseos amnis Lageus ad ortus
septeno impellens tumefactum gurgite pontum ;
at qua diversas clementior aspicit Arctos,
Herculeo dirimente freto, diducta propinquis
Europes videt arva iugis ; ultra obsidet aequor, 200
nee patitur nomen proferri longius Atlas,
Atlas subducto tracturus vertice caelum,
sidera nubiferum fulcit caput, aetheriasque
erigit aeternum compages ardua cervix,
canet barba gelu, frontemque immanibus umbris 205
pinea silva premit ; vastant cava tempora vent),
nimbosoque ruunt spumantia flumina rictu.
tum geminas laterum cautes maria alta fatigant,
atque ubi fessus equos Titan immersit anhelos,
flammiferum condunt fumanti gurgite currum. 210
sed qua se campis squalentibus Africa tendit,
serpentum largo coquitur fecunda veneno ;
felix qua pingues mitis plaga temperat agros,
nee Cerere Hennaea Phario nee victa colono.
" African peoples subject to Carthage.
* Aeolus was the ruler of all winds and kept them in prison.
' The Nile, which flows into the sea by seven mouths.
Lagus, a Macedonian general, founded the dynasty of the
Ptolemies.
** The Bears are the two northern constellations so named.
« Atlas, the mountain range which bou'ids N.W. Africa,
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