<TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xmlns:py="http://codespeak.net/lxml/objectify/pytype" py:pytype="TREE"><text xml:lang="lat"><body><div xml:lang="lat" type="edition" n="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0893.phi001.perseus-lat2"><div type="textpart" n="1" subtype="book"><div type="textpart" n="8" met="(Greater) Sapphic Strophe" subtype="poem"><l n="1">Lydia, dic per omnis</l><l n="2">te deos oro, Sybarin cur properes amando</l><l n="3">perdere, cur apricum</l><l n="4">oderit campum patiens pulveris atque solis,</l><l n="5">cur neque militaris</l><l n="6">inter aequalis equitet, Gallica nec lupatis</l><l n="7">temperet ora frenis?</l><l n="8">cur timet flavum Tiberim tangere? cur olivum</l><l n="9">sanguine viperino</l><l n="10">cautius vitat neque iam livida gestat armis</l><l n="11">bracchia saepe disco,</l><l n="12">saepe trans finem iaculo nobilis expedito?</l><l n="13">quid latet, ut marinae</l><l n="14">filium dicunt Thetidis sub lacrimosa Troiae</l><l n="15">funera, ne virilis</l><l n="16">cultus in caedem et Lycias proriperet catervas?</l></div></div></div></body></text></TEI>