<TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xmlns:py="http://codespeak.net/lxml/objectify/pytype" py:pytype="TREE"><text><body><div type="edition" n="urn:cts:latinLit:phi1017.phi001.perseus-lat2" xml:lang="lat"><sp who="#hercules"><l n="1198">sinuare nervum rite cedentem mihi?</l><l n="1199">ad vos revertor; genitor, hoc nostrum est scelus?</l><l n="1200" part="I">tacuere? nostrum est.</l></sp><sp who="#amphitryon"><speaker>Amph.</speaker><l n="1200b" part="F">Luctus est istic tuus,</l><l n="1201">crimen novercae: casus hic culpa caret.</l></sp><milestone n="1202" unit="card"/><sp who="#hercules"><speaker>Herc.</speaker><l n="1202">Nunc parte ab omni, genitor, iratus tona,</l><l n="1203">oblite nostri vindica sera manu</l><l n="1204">saltem nepotes. stelliger mundus sonet</l><l n="1205">flammasque et hic et ille iaculetur polus: </l><l n="1206">rupes ligatum Caspiae corpus trahant</l><l n="1207">atque ales avida— cur Promethei vacant</l><l n="1208">scopuli? vacat cur vertice immenso feras</l><l n="1209">volucresque pascens Caucasi abruptum latus</l><l n="1210">nudumque silvis? illa quae pontum Scythen</l><l n="1211">Symplegas artat hinc et hinc vinctas manus</l><l n="1212">distendat alto, cumque revocata vice</l><l n="1213">in se coibunt saxaque in caelum expriment</l><pb n="p.44"/><l n="1214">actis utrimque rupibus medium mare,</l><l n="1215">ego inquieta montium iaceam mora. </l><l n="1216">quin structum acervans nemore congesto aggerem</l><l n="1217">cruore corpus impio sparsum cremo?</l><l n="1218">sic, sic agendum est: inferis reddam Herculem.</l></sp><sp who="#amphitryon"><speaker>Amph.</speaker><l n="1219">Nondum tumultu pectus attonito carens</l><l n="1220">mutavit iras quodque habet proprium furor, </l><l n="1221" part="I">in se ipse saevit,</l></sp><sp who="#hercules"><speaker>Herc.</speaker><l n="1221b" part="F">Dira Furiarum loca</l><l n="1222">et inferorum carcer et sonti plaga</l><l n="1223">decreta turbae— si quod exilium latet</l><l n="1224">ulterius Erebo, Cerbero ignotum et mihi:</l><l n="1225">hoc me abde, tellus; Tartari ad finem ultimum </l></sp></div></body></text></TEI>