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Minor Latin poets; with introductions and English translations

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MINOR LATIN POETSmitigat armatas victrix dementia vires,convenit in mores nomen utrumque tuos :hinc tibi cert<strong>and</strong>i bona parcendique voluptas :quos timuit superat, quos superavit amat.inventrix oleae colitur vinique repertoret qui primus humo pressit aratra puer ;aras Paeoniam meruit medicina per artem,factus et Alcides nobilitate deus :tu quoque, legiferis mundum complexa triumphis,foedere communi vivere cuncta facis.te, dea, te celebrat Romanus ubique recessuspacificoque gerit libera colla iugo.omnia perpetuo quae servant sidera motu,nullum viderunt pulchrius imperium.quid simile Assyriis conectere contigit armis ?Medi finitimos condomuere suosmagni Parthorum reges Macetumque tyrannimutua per varias iura dedere vices,nee tibi nascenti plures animaeque manusque,sed plus consilii iudiciique fuit.iustis bellorum causis nee pace superbanobilis ad summas gloria venit opes,quod regnas minus est quam quod regnare mererisexcedis factis gr<strong>and</strong>ia fata tuis.~^numen Barth, Baehrens.'* fretus VRB (m marg. factus • f • V) : factus multi editorescretus Canneg. : fertur Baehrens : fretus it Barth.*^ perpetuos . . . motus VRB : corr. Baehrens.^* condomuere Mueller : cum domuere VRB." i.e. of the two divinities Venus <strong>and</strong> Mars.* The three alluded to are Athene (Minerva), Bacchus, <strong>and</strong>Triptolemus.770

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