<TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xmlns:py="http://codespeak.net/lxml/objectify/pytype" py:pytype="TREE"><text><body><div n="urn:cts:latinLit:stoa0045.stoa007.perseus-lat2" xml:lang="lat" type="edition"><div type="textpart" n="2" subtype="poem"><l n="55"><add>Contra sed alterius sectator dogmatis ista </add></l><l n="56"><add>quid doceat reprobans, subdita disce legens:</add></l><l n="57"><add>“Ergo nihil quoniam vita est quod amemus in ista,</add></l><l n="58"><add>nec tamen incassum fas est nos credere natos,</add></l><l n="59"><add>auctorem vitae si iustum credimus esse,</add></l><l n="60"><add>vita alia est nobis illi vivendo paranda, </add></l><l n="61"><add>cum quo post istam possimus vivere vitam,</add></l><l n="62"><add>illi equidem stygias properent descendere ad umbras,</add></l><l n="63"><add>Pythagoreorum stolidum qui dogma secuti</add></l><l n="64"><add>non nasci sese quam natos vivere malint.”</add></l></div><div type="textpart" n="3" subtype="poem"><head>DE VIRO BONO <foreign xml:lang="grc">ΠΥΘΑΓOPIKH AΠΟΦΑΣΙΣ</foreign>
               </head><l n="1">VIR bonus et sapiens, qualem vix repperit unum</l><l n="2">milibus e cunctis hominum consultus Apollo,</l><l n="3">iudex ipse sui totum se explorat ad unguem.</l><l n="4">quid proceres vanique levis quid opinio volgi</l><gap reason="omitted"/><l n="5">securus, mundi instar habens, teres atque rotundus, </l></div></div></body></text></TEI>