<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:phi1276.phi001.perseus-lat2" xml:lang="lat"><div type="textpart" subtype="book" n="2" org="uniform" sample="complete"><div type="textpart" subtype="poem" n="6" met="hexameter" org="uniform" sample="complete"><l n="1">Credo Pudicitiam Saturno rege moratam</l><l n="2">in terris visamque diu, cum frigida parvas</l><l n="3">praeberet spelunca domos ignemque Laremque</l><l n="4">et pecus et dominos communi clauderet umbra,</l><l n="5">silvestrem montana torum cum sterneret uxor</l><l n="6">frondibus et culmo vicinarumque ferarum</l><l n="7">pellibus, haut similis tibi, Cynthia, nec tibi, cuius</l><l n="8">turbavit nitidos extinctus passer ocellos,</l><l n="9">sed potanda ferens infantibus ubera magnis</l><l n="10">et saepe horridior glandem ructante marito.</l><l n="11">quippe aliter tunc orbe novo caeloque recenti</l><l n="12">vivebant homines, qui rupto robore nati</l><l n="13">compositive luto nullos habuere parentes.</l><l n="14">multa Pudicitiae veteris vestigia forsan</l><l n="15">aut aliqua exstiterint et sub Iove, set Iove nondum</l><l n="16">barbato, nondum Graecis iurare paratis</l><l n="17">per caput alterius, cum furem nemo timeret</l><l n="18">caulibus et pomis, et aperto viveret horto.</l><l n="19">paulatim deinde ad superos Astraea recessit</l><l n="20">hac comite, atque duae pariter fugere sorores.</l><l n="21">Anticum et vetus est alienum, Postume, lectum</l><l n="22">concutere atque sacri genium contemnere fulcri.</l><l n="23">omne aliud crimen mox ferrea protulit aetas:</l><l n="24">viderunt primos argentea saecula moechos.</l><l n="25">conventum tamen et pactum et sponsalia nostra</l><l n="26">tempestate paras, iamque a tonsore magistro</l><l n="27">pecteris, et digito pignus fortasse dedisti,</l><l n="28">certe sanus eras; uxorem, Postume, ducis?</l><l n="29">dic, qua Tisiphone, quibus exagitare<note><hi rend="italic"><foreign xml:lang="lat">exagitare</foreign></hi> P<foreign xml:lang="grc">Ψ</foreign>: <hi rend="italic"><foreign xml:lang="lat">exagitere</foreign></hi> O.</note> colubris?</l><l n="30">ferre potes dominam salvis tot restibus ullam,</l></div></div></div></body></text></TEI>