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Vates threicio blandior Orpheo,
Seu malis fidibus sistere lubricos
Amnes, seu tremulo ducere pollice
Ipsis cum latebris feras;
Vates aeolii pectinis arbiter,
5Qui princeps latiam sollicitas chelyn,
Nec segnis titulos addere noxiis
Nigro carmine frontibus;
Quis te a barbarica compede vindicat?
Quis frontis nebulam dispulit, et situ
Deterso levibus restituit choris
Curata iuvenem cute?
10O quam nuper eras nubilus et malo
Obductus senio! Quam nitidos ades
Nunc vultus referens, docta fragrantibus
Cinctus tempora floribus!
Talem purpureis reddere solibus
Laetum pube nova, post gelida nives,
15Serpentem, positis exuviis, solet
Verni temperies poli.
Talem te choreis reddidit et lyrae
Landinus veterum laudibus aemulus,
Qualis tu solitus Tibur ad uvidum
Blandam tendere barbiton.
Nunc te delitiis nunc decet et levi
20Lascivire ioco; nunc puerilibus
Insertum thyasis aut fide garrula
Inter ludere virgines.
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