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                <requestUrn>urn:cts:latinLit:phi0893.phi001.perseus-lat2:2.17.1-2.17.20</requestUrn>
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                <urn>urn:cts:latinLit:phi0893.phi001.perseus-lat2:2.17.1-2.17.20</urn>
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                    <TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><text xml:lang="lat"><body><div xml:lang="lat" type="edition" n="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0893.phi001.perseus-lat2"><div type="textpart" n="2" subtype="book"><div type="textpart" n="17" met="Alcaic Strophe" subtype="poem"><lg><l n="1">Cur me querelis exanimas tuis?</l><l n="2">nec dis amicum est nec mihi te prius</l><l n="3">obire, Maecenas, mearum</l><l n="4">grande decus columenque rerum.</l></lg><lg><l n="5">a, te meae si partem animae rapit</l><l n="6">maturior vis, quid moror altera,</l><l n="7">nec carus aeque nec superstes</l><l n="8">integer? ille dies utramque</l></lg><lg><l n="9">ducet ruinam. non ego perfidum</l><l n="10">dixi sacramentum ibimus, ibimus,</l><l n="11">utcumque praecedes, supremum</l><l n="12">carpere iter comites parati.</l></lg><lg><l n="13">me nec Chimaerae spiritus igneae</l><l n="14">nec si resurgat centimanus Gyas</l><l n="15">divellet umquam: sic potenti</l><l n="16">Iustitiae placitumque Parcis.</l></lg><lg><l n="17">seu Libra seu me Scorpios adspicit</l><l n="18">formidolosus pars violentior</l><l n="19">natalis horae seu tyrannus</l><l n="20">Hesperiae Capricornus undae:</l></lg></div></div></div></body></text></TEI>
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