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                    <TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><text><body><div type="edition" xml:lang="lat" n="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0550.phi001.perseus-lat1"><div type="textpart" subtype="book" n="2"><l n="499">esse, supra quod iam docui non posse probari.</l><l n="500">iam tibi barbaricae vestes Meliboeaque fulgens</l><l n="501">purpura Thessalico concharum tacta colore,</l><l n="502">aurea pavonum ridenti imbuta lepore</l><l n="503">saecla novo rerum superata colore iacerent</l><l n="504">et contemptus odor smyrnae mellisque sapores,</l><l n="505">et cycnea mele Phoebeaque daedala chordis</l><l n="506">carmina consimili ratione oppressa silerent;</l><l n="507">namque aliis aliud praestantius exoreretur.</l><l n="508">cedere item retro possent in deteriores</l><l n="509">omnia sic partis, ut diximus in melioris;</l><l n="510">namque aliis aliud retro quoque taetrius esset</l><l n="511">naribus auribus atque oculis orisque sapori.</l><l n="512">quae quoniam non sunt, <add>sed</add> rebus reddita certa</l><l n="513">finis utrimque tenet summam, fateare necessest</l><l n="514">materiem quoque finitis differe figuris.</l><l n="515">denique ab ignibus ad gelidas hiemum usque pruinas</l><l n="516">finitumst retroque pari ratione remensumst.</l><l n="517">omnis enim calor ac frigus mediique tepores</l><l n="518">interutrasque iacent explentes ordine summam.</l></div></div></body></text></TEI>
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