<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="14" met="Alcaic Strophe" subtype="poem"><lg><l n="1">Eheu fugaces, Postume, Postume,</l><l n="2">labuntur anni nec pietas moram</l><l n="3">rugis et instanti senectae</l><l n="4">adferet indomitaeque morti,</l></lg><lg><l n="5">non, si trecenis quotquot eunt dies,</l><l n="6">amice, places inlacrimabilem</l><l n="7">Plutona tauris, qui ter amplum</l><l n="8">Geryonen Tityonque tristi</l></lg><lg><l n="9">conpescit unda, scilicet omnibus</l><l n="10">quicumque terrae munere vescimur</l><l n="11">enaviganda, sive reges</l><l n="12">sive inopes erimus coloni.</l></lg><lg><l n="13">frustra cruento Marte carebimus</l><l n="14">fractisque rauci fluctibus Hadriae,</l><l n="15">frustra per autumnos nocentem</l><l n="16">corporibus metuemus Austrum:</l></lg><lg><l n="17">visendus ater flumine languido</l><l n="18">Cocytos errans et Danai genus</l><l n="19">infame damnatusque longi</l><l n="20">Sisyphus Aeolides laboris.</l></lg><lg><l n="21">linquenda tellus et domus et placens</l><l n="22">uxor neque harum quas colis arborum</l><l n="23">te praeter invisas cupressos</l><l n="24">ulla brevem dominum sequetur.</l></lg><lg><l n="25">absumet heres Caecuba dignior</l><l n="26">servata centum clavibus et mero</l><l n="27">tinguet pavimentum superbo,</l><l n="28">pontificum potiore cenis.</l></lg></div></div></div></body></text></TEI>