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Ne quis humasse velit Ajacem, Atrida, vetas cur ?<br />

Rex sum.—Nil ultra quasro plebeius. Et cequam<br />

Rem imperito; at, si cui videor non Justus, inulto<br />

Dicere, quod sentit, permitto.—Maxime regum, 190<br />

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Di tibi dent capta classem deducere Troja.<br />

Ergo consulere et mox respondere licebit ?<br />

Consule.—Cur Ajax, heros ab Achille secundus,<br />

Putesoit, toties servatis clarus Aohivis ?<br />

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Gaudeat lit populus Priami Priamusque inhumato, 195<br />

Per quem tot juvenes patrio caruere sepuloro ?<br />

Mille oviu/m insanus morti dedit, indytzmi JJlixen<br />

Et Mendaum una mecum se occidere damans.—<br />

Tu quum pro vitula statuis dulcem Aulide natam<br />

Ante aras, spargisque mola caput, improbe, salsa, 200<br />

Rectum animi servas ?<br />

Ajax<br />

Quorsum ? Insanus quid enim<br />

Fecit, quum stravit ferro pecus ? Abstinuit vim<br />

Uxore et gnato : mala multa precatus Atridis,<br />

Non ille aut Teucrum aut ipsum violavit Ulixen.<br />

Varum, ego, ut Juerentes adverso litore naves<br />

Eriperem, prudens placavi sanguine Divos.—<br />

Nempe tuo, furiose. Meo, sed nonfuriosus.—<br />

205<br />

Qui species alias veris scelerisque tumultu<br />

Permixtas capiet, commotus habebitur ; atque<br />

Stultitiane erret, nihilum distabit, an ira. 210<br />

Ajax quum immeritos oocidit, desipit, agnos ;<br />

Quum prudens scelus ob titulos admittis inanes,<br />

Stas animo 1 et purum est vitio tibi, quum tumidum est, cor ?<br />

Si quis leetica nitidam gestare amet agnam,<br />

Huic vestcm, ut gnatss paret ancillas, paret aurum, 21.'!<br />

Rufam aut Pusillam appellet, fortique rnarito<br />

Destinet uxorem :<br />

interdicto huic omne adimat jus<br />

Prsetor, et ad sanos abeat tutela propinquos.<br />

Quid ? si quis gnatam pro muta devovet agna.<br />

Integer est animi ? Ne dixeris. Ergo ibi parva 220<br />

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