<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="11" subtype="poem"><l n="60">in furias cassa cognitione fremens, </l><l n="61">nullus enim Christi ex famulis per tanta repertus</l><l n="62">supplicia, auderet qui vitiare animam,</l><l n="63">inde furens quaesitor ait: ‘iam, tortor, ab unco</l><l n="64">desine; si vana est quaestio, morte agito,</l><l n="65">huic abscide caput, crux istum tollat in auras </l><l n="66">viventesque oculos offerat alitibus,</l><l n="67">hos rape praecipites et vinctos conice in ignem,</l><l n="68">sit pyra quae multos devoret una reos.</l><l n="69">en tibi quos properes rimosae inponere cumbae,</l><l n="70">pellere et in medii stagna profunda freti. </l><l n="71">quos ubi susceptos rabidum male suta per aequor</l><l n="72">vexerit et tumidis caesa labarit aquis,</l><pb n="p.310"/><l n="73">dissociata putrem laxent tabulata carinam</l><l n="74">conceptumque bibant undique naufragium,</l><l n="75">squamea caenoso praestabit ventre sepulcrum </l><l n="76">belua consumptis cruda cadaveribus.’</l><l n="77">haec persultanti celsum subito ante tribunal</l><l n="78">offertur senior nexibus inplicitus.</l><l n="79">stipati circum iuvenes clamore ferebant</l><l n="80">ipsum Christicolis esse caput populis: </l><l n="81">si foret extinctum propere caput, omnia vulgi</l><l n="82">pectora Romanis sponte sacranda deis.</l><l n="83">insolitum leti poscunt genus et nova poenae</l><l n="84">inventa, exemplo quo trepident alii.</l><l n="85">ille supinata residens cervice: <q>quis,</q> inquit, </l><l n="86"><q>dicitur?</q> adfirmant dicier Hippolytum.</l><l n="87">‘ergo sit Hippolytus, quatiat turbetque iugales,</l><l n="88">intereatque feris dilaceratus equis.’</l><l n="89">vix haec ille, duo cogunt animalia freni</l></div></div></body></text></TEI>