<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="2" subtype="book"><div type="textpart" n="13" met="Alcaic Strophe" subtype="poem"><lg><l n="1">Ille et nefasto te posuit die</l><l n="2">quicumque primum, et sacrilega manu</l><l n="3">produxit, arbos, in nepotum</l><l n="4">perniciem opprobriumque pagi;</l></lg><lg><l n="5">illum et parentis crediderim sui</l><l n="6">fregisse cervicem et penetralia</l><l n="7">sparsisse nocturno cruore</l><l n="8">hospitis; ille venena Colcha</l></lg><lg><l n="9">et quidquid usquam concipitur nefas</l><l n="10">tractavit, agro qui statuit meo</l><l n="11">te, triste lignum, te, caducum</l><l n="12">in domini caput inmerentis</l></lg><lg><l n="13">quid quisque vitet, numquam homini satis</l><l n="14">cautum est in horas: navita Bosporum</l><l n="15">Poenus perhorrescit neque ultra</l><l n="16">caeca timet aliunde fata,</l></lg><lg><l n="17">miles sagittas et celerem fugam</l><l n="18">Parthi, catenas Parthus et Italum</l><l n="19">robur; sed inprovisa leti</l><l n="20">vis rapuit rapietque gentis.</l></lg><lg><l n="21">quam paene furvae regna Proserpinae</l><l n="22">et iudicantem vidimus Aeacum</l><l n="23">sedesque discriptas piorum et</l><l n="24">Aeoliis fidibus querentem</l></lg><lg><l n="25">Sappho puellis de popularibus</l><l n="26">et te sonantem plenius aureo,</l><l n="27">Alcaee, plectro dura navis,</l><l n="28">dura fugae mala, dura belli.</l></lg><lg><l n="29">utrumque sacro digna silentio</l><l n="30">mirantur umbrae dicere, sed magis</l><l n="31">pugnas et exactos tyrannos</l><l n="32">densum umeris bibit aure volgus.</l></lg><lg><l n="33">quid mirum, ubi illis carminibus stupens</l><l n="34">demittit atras belua centiceps</l><l n="35">auris et intorti capillis</l><l n="36">Eumenidum recreantur angues?</l></lg><lg><l n="37">quin et Prometheus et Pelopis parens</l><l n="38">dulci laborem decipitur sono</l><l n="39">nec curat Orion leones</l><l n="40">aut timidos agitare lyncas</l></lg></div></div></div></body></text></TEI>