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Hunc tu diva tuo recubantem corpore sancto Circumfusa super suavis ex ore loquellas Funde petens placidam Romanis, incluta, pacem." Or, again, of nature's freedom: "Libera continuo dominis privata superbis." Who can fail in this to catch the tones of the Republic? Again, take his description of the transmission of existence, "Et quasi cursores vitai; lampada tradunt;"
"Tuque pater Tiberine tuo cum ilumino sancto." "Unus homo nobis cunctando restituit rem." "Quae neque Dardaniis campis potuere perire Nec quom capta capi, nec quom combusta cremari, Augusto augurio postquam incluta condita Roma est." On the other hand he sometimes falls into pure prose; "Cives Romani tum facti sunt Campani," and the like, are scarcely metre, certainly not poetry.
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