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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="5"><l n="1281">Nunc tibi quo pacto ferri natura reperta</l><l n="1282">sit facilest ipsi per te cognoscere, Memmi.</l><l n="1283">arma antiqua manus ungues dentesque fuerunt</l><l n="1284">et lapides et item silvarum fragmina rami</l><l n="1285">et flamma atque ignes, post quam sunt cognita primum.</l><l n="1286">posterius ferri vis est aerisque reperta.</l><l n="1287">et prior aeris erat quam ferri cognitus usus,</l><l n="1288">quo facilis magis est natura et copia maior.</l><l n="1289">aere solum terrae tractabant, aereque belli</l><l n="1290">miscebant fluctus et vulnera vasta serebant</l><l n="1291">et pecus atque agros adimebant; nam facile ollis</l><l n="1292">omnia cedebant armatis nuda et inerma.</l><l n="1293">inde minutatim processit ferreus ensis</l><l n="1294">versaque in obprobrium species est falcis ahenae,</l><l n="1295">et ferro coepere solum proscindere terrae</l><l n="1296">exaequataque sunt creperi certamina belli.</l><l n="1297">et prius est armatum in equi conscendere costas</l><l n="1298">et moderarier hunc frenis dextraque vigere</l><l n="1299">quam biiugo curru belli temptare pericla.</l><l n="1300">et biiugo prius est quam bis coniungere binos</l></div></div></body></text></TEI>
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