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16a THESTIUM LIB. III, ELEG. YÏIÏ<br />

ELEGIA OCTAVA<br />

ARGUMENTUM.<br />

Desiderio lum palriœ, tum suorum ila tenerî poeta scribït, ut cupiat céleri<br />

aliquocursu eo se conferre : quam rem sibi Augustum solurn prœstare posse<br />

ostendil: narratque exsiiii sui jucomnioda; optatque, ut landem Ccesar irœ<br />

mo<strong>du</strong>m statuât, et mitius prœbeat exsilium.<br />

NUKC ego Triptolemi cupercm coascendere cuvrus,<br />

Misit in ig no tara qui rude semen humum :<br />

Nunc ego Medeee vellem fraenare dracones,<br />

Quos habuit fugiens arce5 Corinthe, tua :<br />

Nunc ego jactandas opta rem sumere pennas,<br />

Sive tuas3 Perseu; Dœdale, sive tuas;<br />

Ut5 tenera nostris cedente volatibus aura,<br />

Âdspicerem patrias <strong>du</strong>lce repente solum ,<br />

Désertique domus vultum , memoresque sodales .<br />

Caraque praecipue conjugis ora meœ.<br />

STULTE, quid o frustra votis puerilibus optas,<br />

Quœ non ulla tibi fertque feretque dies !<br />

Si semel optan<strong>du</strong>rn est, Àugustum immen adora,<br />

Et quem sensistij rite precare, Deum.<br />

îlle tibi permasque potest currusque volucres<br />

Tradere : det reditum ? protinus aies eris.<br />

Si precer haec ? neque enim possim majora precari,<br />

Ne mea sint limeo vota modesta parum.

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