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                <requestName>GetPassage</requestName>
                <requestUrn>urn:cts:latinLit:stoa0089.stoa011.perseus-lat2:209-224</requestUrn>
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                <urn>urn:cts:latinLit:stoa0089.stoa011.perseus-lat2:209-224</urn>
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                    <TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><text><body><div xml:lang="lat" type="edition" n="urn:cts:latinLit:stoa0089.stoa011.perseus-lat2"><div type="textpart" n="1" subtype="poem"><l n="209">stellati pariter crines. iuvat ipse Tonantem</l><l n="210">error et ambiguae placet ignorantia matri; </l><l n="211">Eurotas proprios discernere nescit alumnos.</l><l n="212">Ut domus excepit reduces, ibi talia tecum</l><l n="213">pro rerum stabili fertur dicione locutus:</l><l n="214">“Si tibi Parthorum solium Fortuna dedisset,</l><l n="215">care puer, terrisque procul venerandus Eois </l><l n="216">barbarus Arsacio consurgeret ore tiaras:</l><l n="217">sufficeret sublime genus luxuque fluentem</l><l n="218">deside nobilitas posset te sola tueri.</l><l n="219">altera Romanae longe rectoribus aulae</l><l n="220">condicio. virtute decet, non sanguine niti. </l><l n="221">maior et utilior fato coniuncta potenti,</l><l n="222">vile latens virtus, quid enim? submersa tenebris</l><l n="223">proderit obscuro veluti sine remige puppis</l><l n="224">vel lyra quae reticet vel qui non tenditur arcus.</l></div></div></body></text></TEI>
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