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                    <TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><text xml:id="stoa0045.stoa0"><body><div type="edition" n="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0959.phi009.perseus-lat2" xml:lang="lat"><div type="textpart" subtype="book" n="1"><div type="textpart" subtype="poem" n="5"><l n="41">sic ego constanter studium non utile servo,</l><l n="42">et repeto, nollem quas coluisse, deas.</l><l n="43">quid potius faciam? non sum, qui segnia ducam</l><l n="44">otia : mors nobis tempus habetur iners.</l><l n="45"> nec iuvat in lucem nimio marcescere vino,</l><l n="46">nec tenet incertas alea blanda manus, </l><l n="47">cum dedimus somno quas corpus postulat horas,</l><l n="48">quo ponam vigilans tempora longa modo?</l><l n="49">moris an oblitus patrii contendere discam</l><l n="50">Sarmaticos arcus, et trahar arte loci?</l><pb xml:id="p.294"/><l n="51">hoc quoque me studium prohibent adsumere vires,</l><l n="52">mensque magis gracili corpore nostra valet, </l><l n="53">cum bene quaesieris quid agam, magis utile nil est</l><l n="54">artibus his, quae nil utilitatis habent.</l><l n="55"> consequor ex illis casus oblivia nostri;</l><l n="56">hanc messem satis est si mea reddit humus, </l><l n="57">gloria vos acuat, vos, ut recitata probentur</l><l n="58">carmina, Pieriis invigilate choris, </l><l n="59">quod venit ex facili, satis est componere nobis,</l><l n="60">et nimis intenti causa laboris abest,</l></div></div></div></body></text></TEI>
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