<TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xmlns:py="http://codespeak.net/lxml/objectify/pytype" py:pytype="TREE"><text n="Phaed."><body><div xml:lang="lat" type="edition" n="urn:cts:latinLit:phi1017.phi005.perseus-lat2"><sp who="#hippolytus"><l n="673">et quando saeva fulmen .emittes manu,</l><l n="674">si nunc serenum est? omnis impulsus ruat</l><l n="675">aether et atris nubibus condat diem, </l><l n="676">ac versa retro sidera obliquos agant </l><l n="677">retorta cursus, tuque, sidereum caput,</l><l n="678">radiate Titan, tu nefas stirpis tuae</l><l n="679">speculare? lucem merge et in tenebras fuge.</l><l n="680">cur dextra, divum rector atque hominum, vacat </l><l n="681">tua nec trisulca mundus ardescit face?</l><l n="682">in me tona, me fige, me velox cremet</l><l n="683">transactus ignis— sum nocens, merui mori:</l><l n="684">placui novercae, dignus en stupris ego?.</l><l n="685">scelerique tanto visus ego solus tibi </l><l n="686">materia facilis? hoc meus meruit rigor?</l><l n="687">o scelere vincens omne femineum genus,</l><l n="688"><del>o maius ausa matre monstrifera malum</del></l><l n="689">genetrice peior! illa se tantum stupro</l><l n="690">contaminavit, et tamen. tacitum diu </l><l n="691">crimen biformi partus exhibuit nota</l><l n="692">scelusque matris arguit vultu truci</l><l n="693">ambiguus infans— ille te venter tulit.</l><l n="694">o ter quaterque prospero fato dati</l><l n="695">quos hausit et peremit et leto dedit </l><l n="696">odium dolusque— genitor, invideo tibi:</l><l n="697">Colchide noverca maius haec, maius malum est.</l></sp><milestone n="698" unit="card"/><sp who="#phaedra"><speaker>Ph.</speaker><l n="698">Et ipsa nostrae fata cognosco domus:</l><l n="699">fugienda petimus; sed mei non sum potens.</l><l n="700">te vel per ignes, per mare insanum sequar </l><pb n="p.181"/><l n="701">rupesque et amnes, unda quos torrens rapit;</l><l n="702">quacumque gressus tuleris hac amens agar—</l></sp></div></body></text></TEI>