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  • Byzantia robur fregit luxuries Ancyranique triumphi. non peditem praecedit eques; non commoda castris eligitur regio; uicibus custodia nullis aduigilat uallo; non explorantur eundae95 uitandaeque uiae; nullo se cornua flectunt ordine: confusi passim per opaca uagantur lustra, per ignotas angusto tramite uallis. sic uacui rectoris equi, sic orba magistro fertur in abruptum casu, non sidere, puppis; 100 sic ruit in rupes amisso pisce sodali belua, sulcandas qui praeuius edocet undas inmensumque pecus paruae moderamine caudae temperat et tanto coniungit foedera monstro; illa natat rationis inops et caeca profundi; 105 iam breuibus deprensa uadis ignara reuerti palpitat et uanos scopulis inlidit hiatus.

    A Council of War-and War Claudian 1912

  • hortis Hesperidum beatiora longo Ianiculi iugo recumbunt: lati collibus imminent recessus et planus modico tumore uertex5 caelo perfruitur sereniore, et curuas nebula tegente uallis solis luce nitet peculiari: puris leniter admouentur astris celsae culmina delicata uillae.

    The Villa of Fulius Martialis Martial 1912

  • nec tumulus crescit nec caua uallis hiat, sed nostros montis, quorum iuga celsa putantur,

    The Phoenix 1912

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