<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.stoa006.perseus-lat2"><div type="textpart" n="1" subtype="section"><l n="418">mortifero splendore micant radiantque</l><l n="419">necantque. nec non terrificas pilis armare catervas</l><pb n="p.234"/><l n="420">te, Cittaee, iuvat; sed gens Pherezaea sagittis </l><l n="421">insultat virtute pari, sed dispare ferro,</l><l n="422">postremum cuneum rex promovet Euvaeorum</l><l n="423">squamosum thoraca gerens de pelle colubri,</l><l n="424">his subnixa viris scelerum perversa potestas</l><l n="425">edomat invalidas mentes, quae simplicitate </l><l n="426">indociles bellique rudes sub foedere falso</l><l n="427">tristis amicitiae primum socia agmina credunt,</l><l n="428">Mammoneamque fidem pacis sub amore sequuntur.</l><l n="429">mox faciles ad vincla rapi iuga dura volentes</l><l n="430">addictis subeunt cervicibus, et nebulonum </l><l n="431">spirituum iussis servire ferocibus optant.</l><l n="432">ille,supervacuis augens patrimonia fundis</l><l n="433">finitimisque inhians contempto limite agellis,</l><l n="434">ducitur innexus manicis et mille catenis</l><l n="435">ante triumphales currus post terga revinctus, </l><l n="436">nec se barbaricis addictum sentit habenis.</l><l n="437">hic, qui ventosae scandit fastigia famae</l><l n="438">inflaturque cavo pompae popularis honore,</l><l n="439">qui summum solidumque bonum putat ambitionis</l><l n="440">crescere successu, praeconum voce trementes </l><l n="441">exanimare reos, miserorum in corpora fasces</l><l n="442">frangere, terribiles legum exercere secures,</l><l n="443">in laqueum iam colla dedit, iam compede dura</l><l n="444">nectitur et pedibus servilia vincula limat.</l><l n="445">credite, captivi mortales, hostica quos iam </l><l n="446">damnatos cohibent ergastula, quos famulatu</l><l n="447">poenarum virtus non intellecta coercet,</l></div></div></body></text></TEI>