<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.phi009.perseus-lat2" xml:lang="lat"><sp who="#deianira"><l n="467">cui cedat ille? carmine in terras mago</l><l n="468">descendat astris Luna desertis licet</l><l n="469">et bruma messes videat et cantu fugax</l><l n="470">stet deprehensum fulmen et versa vice </l><l n="471">medius coactis ferveat stellis dies:</l><l n="472" part="I">non flectet illum.</l></sp><sp who="#nutrix"><speaker>Nvt.</speaker><l n="472b" part="F">Vicit et superos Amor.</l></sp><sp who="#deianira"><speaker>Dei.</speaker><l n="473">Vincetur uni forsan et spolium dabit</l><l n="474">Amorque summus fiet Alcidae labor.—</l><l n="475">sed te per omne caelitum numen precor, </l><l n="476">per hunc timorem: quicquid arcani apparo</l><l n="477">penitus recondas et fide tacita premas.</l></sp><pb n="p.338"/><sp who="#nutrix"><speaker>Nvt.</speaker><l n="478">Quid istud est quod esse secretum petis?</l></sp><sp who="#deianira"><speaker>Dei.</speaker><l n="479">Non tela sunt, non arma, non ignis minax.</l></sp><sp who="#nutrix"><speaker>Nvt.</speaker><l n="480">Praestare fateor posse me tacitam fidem, </l><l n="481">si scelere careat: interim scelus est fides.</l></sp><sp who="#deianira"><speaker>Dei.</speaker><l n="482">Circumspice agedum, ne quis arcana occupet,</l><l n="483">partemque in omnem vultus inquirens eat.</l></sp><sp who="#nutrix"><speaker>Nvt.</speaker><l n="484">En locus ab omni tutus arbitrio vacat.</l></sp><sp who="#deianira"><speaker>Dei.</speaker><l n="485">Est in remoto regiae sedis loco </l><l n="486">arcana tacitus nostra defendens specus.</l><l n="487">non ille primos accipit soles locus,</l><l n="488">non ille seros, cum ferens Titan diem</l><l n="489">lassum rubenti mergit Oceano iugum.</l><l n="490">illic amoris pignus Herculei latet. </l><l n="491">altrix, fatebor: auctor est Nessus mali</l><l n="492">quem gravida Nephele Thessalo genuit duci,</l><l n="493">qua trepidus astris inserit Pindus Caput</l><l n="494">ultraque nubes Othrys eductus riget.</l><l n="495">namque ut subactus Herculis clava horridi </l></sp></div></body></text></TEI>