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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="6"><l n="237">efficere usque adeo pollens fervore corusco.</l><l n="238">tanto mobilior vis et dominantior haec est.</l><l n="239">Nunc ea quo pacto gignantur et impete tanto</l><l n="240">fiant ut possint ictu discludere turris,</l><l n="241">disturbare domos, avellere tigna trabesque</l><l n="242">et monimenta virum commoliri atque ciere,</l><l n="243">exanimare homines, pecudes prosternere passim,</l><l n="244">cetera de genere hoc qua vi facere omnia possint,</l><l n="245">expediam neque <del>te</del> in promissis plura morabor.</l><milestone unit="card" n="246"/><l n="246">Fulmina gignier e crassis alteque putandumst</l><l n="247">nubibus extructis; nam caelo nulla sereno</l><l n="248">nec leviter densis mittuntur nubibus umquam.</l><l n="249">nam dubio procul hoc fieri manifesta docet res;</l><l n="250">quod tunc per totum concrescunt <choice><reg>aeera</reg><orig>aeëra</orig></choice> nubes,</l><l n="251">undique uti tenebras omnis Acherunta reamur</l><l n="252">liquisse et magnas caeli complesse cavernas,</l><l n="253"><choice><reg>aeusque</reg><orig>æusque</orig></choice> adeo tetra nimborum nocte coorta</l><l n="254">inpendent atrae formidinis ora superne,<choice><reg>ae</reg><orig>æ</orig></choice></l><l n="255">cum commoliri tempestas fulmina coeptat.</l><l n="256">praeterea persaepe niger quoque per mare nimbus,</l><l n="257">ut picis e caelo demissum flumen, in undas</l><l n="258">sic cadit effertus tenebris procul et trahit atram</l><l n="259">fulminibus gravidam tempestatem atque procellis,</l><l n="260">ignibus ac ventis cum primis ipse repletus,</l><l n="261">in terra quoque ut horrescant ac tecta requirant.</l><l n="262">sic igitur supera nostrum caput esse putandumst</l><l n="263">tempestatem altam; neque enim caligine tanta</l><l n="264">obruerent terras, nisi inaedificata superne</l><l n="265">multa forent multis exempto nubila sole;</l><l n="266">nec tanto possent venientes opprimere imbri,</l><l n="267">flumina abundare ut facerent camposque natare,</l><l n="268">si non extructis foret alte nubibus aether.</l><l n="269">hic igitur ventis atque ignibus omnia plena</l><l n="270">sunt; ideo passim fremitus et fulgura fiunt.</l><l n="271"> quippe etenim supra docui permulta vaporis</l><l n="272">semina habere cavas nubes et multa necessest</l><l n="273">concipere ex solis radiis ardoreque eorum.</l><l n="274">hoc ubi ventus eas idem qui cogit in unum</l><l n="275">forte locum quemvis, expressit multa vaporis</l><l n="276">semina seque simul cum eo commiscuit igni,</l><l n="277">insinuatus ibi vortex versatur in arto</l><l n="278">et calidis acuit fulmen fornacibus intus;</l></div></div></body></text></TEI>
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