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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="257">tu licet extremos late dominere per Indos,</l><l n="258">te Medus, te mollis Arabs, te Seres adorent:</l><l n="259">si metuis, si prava cupis, si duceris ira,</l><l n="260">servitii patiere iugum; tolerabis iniquas </l><l n="261">interius leges, tunc omnia iure tenebis,</l><l n="262">cum poteris rex esse tui. proclivior usus</l><l n="263">in peiora datur suadetque licentia luxum</l><l n="264">inlecebrisque effrena favet. tum vivere caste</l><pb n="v.1.p.306"/><l n="265">asperius, cum prompta Venus; tum durius irae </l><l n="266">consulitur, cum poena patet. sed comprime motus</l><l n="267">nec tibi quid liceat, sed quid fecisse decebit</l><l n="268">occurrat, mentemque domet respectus honesti.</l><l n="269">Hoc te praeterea crebro sermone monebo,</l><l n="270">ut te totius medio telluris in ore </l><l n="271">vivere cognoscas, cunctis tua gentibus esse</l><l n="272">facta palam nec posse dari regalibus usquam</l></div></div></body></text></TEI>
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