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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="7"><l n="1">Littera pro verbis tibi, Messaline, salutem</l><l n="2">quam legis, a saevis attulit usque Getis, </l><l n="3">indicat auctorem locus? an, nisi nomine lecto,</l><l n="4">haec me Nasonem scribere verba latet?</l><l n="5"> ecquis in extremo positus iacet orbe tuorum,</l><l n="6">me tamen excepto, qui precor esse tuus?</l><l n="7">di procul a cunctis, qui te venerantur amantque</l><l n="8">huius notitiam gentis habere <note xml:id="note.300.1">abesse</note> velint, </l><l n="9">nos satis est inter glaciem Scythicasque sagittas</l><l n="10">vivere, si vita est mortis habenda genus, </l><l n="11">nos premat aut bello tellus, aut frigore caelum,</l><l n="12">truxque Getes armis, grandine pugnet <note xml:id="note.300.2">pulset <foreign xml:lang="grc">σ</foreign>
                     </note> hiems .</l><l n="13">nos habeat regio nec pomo feta nec uvis,</l><l n="14">et cuius nullum cesset ab hoste latus.</l><l n="15"> cetera sit sospes cultorum turba tuorum,</l><l n="16">in quibus, ut populo, pars ego parva fui.</l><l n="17">me miserum, si tu verbis offenderis istis</l><l n="18">nosque negas ulla parte fuisse tuos! </l><l n="19">idque sit ut verum, mentito ignoscere debes:</l><l n="20"> nil demit laudi gloria nostra tuae.</l></div></div></div></body></text></TEI>
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