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Minor Latin poets; with introductions and English translations

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MINOR LATIN POETSpacis opus docuit iussitque silentibus armisinter sacra tubas, non inter bella, sonare.iam nee adumbrati faciem mercatus honorisnee vacuos tacitus fasces et inane tribunal 70accipiet consul ;sed legibus omne reductisius aderit moremque fori vultumque prioremreddet, et afflictum melior deus auferet aevum.exultet quaecumque notum gens ima iacentemerectumve colit boream, quaecumque vel ortu 75vel patet occasu mediove sub aethere fervit.cernitis ut puro nox iam vicesima caelofulgeat et placida radiantem luce cometemproferat ? ut liquidum niteat sine vulnere plenus ?numquid utrumque polum, sicut solet, ignecruento 80spargit et ardenti scintillat sanguine lampas ?at quondam non talis erat, cum Caesare raptoindixit miseris fatalia civibus arma.scilicet ipse deus Romanae pondera molisfortibus excipiet sic inconcussa lacertis, 85ut neque translati sonitu fragor intonet orbisnee prius ex meritis defunctos Roma penatescenseat, occasus nisi cum respexerit ortus."'® tepet Postgate : patet codd. fervit GP : servit NV.'^ niteat Ulitius : mutat XG : mittat P : nutet Vnonnulli: nictet Barth.^^ prius a XG : pfios = patrios Diets apiid Levy,Gnomon^ 1928, pp. 594 sqq." The comet of lines 77 sqq. is taken to be the comet ofA.D. 54 which was believed to have heralded the death of224

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