<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="4" subtype="poem"><l n="25">Qualis vita hominum, duo quam monosyllaba versant! </l></div><div type="textpart" n="5" subtype="poem"><head>DE AETATIBUS ANIMANTIUM. HESIODION</head><l n="1">TER binos deciesque novem super exit in annos</l><l n="2">iusta senescentum quos implet vita virorum,</l><l n="3">hos novies superat vivendo garrula cornix</l><l n="4">et quater egreditur cornicis saecula cervus,</l><l n="5">alipedem cervum ter vincit corvus et illum </l><l n="6">multiplicat novies Phoenix, reparabilis ales.</l><pb n="v.1.p.174"/><l n="7">quem nos perpetuo decies praevertimus aevo,</l><l n="8">Nymphae Hamadryades, quarum longissima vita est.</l><l n="9">Haec cohibet finis vivacia fata animantum.</l><l n="10">cetera secreti novit deus arbiter aevi,1 </l><l n="11">tempora quae Stilbon volvat, quae saecula Phaenon,</l><l n="12">quos Pyrois habeat, quos Iuppiter igne benigno</l><l n="13">circuitus, quali properet Venus alma recursu,</l><l n="14">qui Phoeben, quanti maneant Titana labores,</l></div></div></body></text></TEI>