<TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xmlns:py="http://codespeak.net/lxml/objectify/pytype" py:pytype="TREE"><text><body><div xml:lang="lat" type="edition" n="urn:cts:latinLit:stoa0238.stoa001.perseus-lat2"><div type="textpart" n="10" subtype="poem"><l n="1080">stigmarit, hanc sic consecratam praedicant. </l><l n="1081">functum deinde cum reliquit spiritus</l><l n="1082">et ad sepulcrum pompa fertur funeris,</l><l n="1083">partes per ipsas inprimuntur bratteae;</l><l n="1084">insignis auri lammina obducit cutem,</l><l n="1085">tegitur metallo, quod perustum est ignibus. </l><l n="1086">has ferre poenas cogitur gentilitas,</l><l n="1087">hac di coercent lege cultores suos:</l><l n="1088">sic daemon ipse ludit hos quos ceperit,</l><l n="1089">docet execrandas ferre contumelias,</l><l n="1090">tormenta inuri mandat infelicibus. </l><l n="1091">at noster iste sanguis ex vestra fluit</l><l n="1092">crudelitate, vos tyrannide inpia</l><l n="1093">exulceratis innocentum corpora,</l><l n="1094">si vos sinatis, incruente vivimus,</l><l n="1095">at si cruente puniamur, vincimus. </l><l n="1096">sed iam silebo; finis instat debitus,</l><l n="1097">finis malorum, passionis gloria;</l><l n="1098">iam non licebit, inprobe, ut licuit modo,</l><l n="1099">torquere nostra vel secare viscera;</l><l n="1100">cedas necesse est victus et iam desinas.’</l><l n="1101"><q>cessabit equidem tortor et sector dehinc,</q></l><l n="1102">iudex minatur ‘sed peremptoris manus</l><l n="1103">succedet illis, strangulatrix faucium;</l><l n="1104">aliter silere nescit oris garruli</l><l n="1105">vox inquieta, quam tubam si fregero.’</l><l n="1106">dixit, foroque protrahi iussit virum,</l><pb n="p.302"/><l n="1107">trudi in tenebras noxialis careeris;</l><l n="1108">elidit illic fune collum martyris</l><l n="1109">lictor nefandus, sic peracta est passio;</l></div></div></body></text></TEI>