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                <urn>urn:cts:latinLit:stoa0238.stoa001.perseus-lat2:10.541-10.560</urn>
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                    <TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><text><body><div xml:lang="lat" type="edition" n="urn:cts:latinLit:stoa0238.stoa001.perseus-lat2"><div type="textpart" n="10" subtype="poem"><l n="541">contemne praesens utile, o prudens homo,</l><l n="542">quod terminandum, quod relinquendum est tibi;</l><l n="543">omitte corpus, rem sepulcri et funeris;</l><l n="544">tende ad futuram gloriam, perge ad Deum;</l><l n="545">agnosce qui sis, vince mundum et saeculum.’</l><l n="546">vixdum elocutus martyr hanc peregerat</l><l n="547">orationem, cum furens interserit</l><l n="548">Asclepiades: ‘vertat ictum carnifex</l><l n="549">in os loquentis, inque maxillas manum</l><l n="550">sulcosque acutos et fidiculas transferat. </l><l n="551">verbositatis ipse rumpatur locus,</l><l n="552">scaturrientes perdat ut loquacitas</l><l n="553">sermonis auras perforatis follibus,</l><l n="554">quibus sonandi nulla lex ponit modum;</l><l n="555">ipsa et loquentis verba torqueri volo.’</l><l n="556">inplet iubentis dicta lictor inpius;</l><l n="557">charaxat ambas ungulis scribentibus</l><l n="558">genas, cruentis et secat faciem notis,</l><l n="559">hirsuta barbis solvitur carptim cutis,</l><l n="560">et mentum adusque vultus omnis scinditur. </l></div></div></body></text></TEI>
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