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[...]o [...]tr [...]que inanes, vindices flammas J [...]
Quae (que) arma coeli cuncta Cyclopum labo [...]
Fuerant, superbus ecce Salmoneus habet;
Summúm (que) sic se fingit, & credit Deum.
Fulmen trisulcum sola sed possit Jovis
Vibrare dextra; plebe nec Divûm satus
Sufficiet operi. Nuncius coeli alipes
Furatur audax tela dum magni patris,
Inusta manibus furta persensit sua.
Unum fatetur quilibet regem locus;
Unóque coelum sole dispensat diem;
Unúmque summum mundus agnoscit Jo [...]
ERGO
Nullis Deorum rector impertit sacras
Vires; superbo poena pro dono forent.

Quantitas non realiter distingui­tur à materia.

EDicta quae lex concinendis versibus,
Et artefactae mentium propagini,
Materia primùm ut apta curetur probè
Ornata numeris prodeat cùm in publicum,
Quam quantitas sequatur ut pedissequa;
Non illa mundum flectit, aut formam rei,
Procera cùm sit, per figuram corripit:
Nisi fortè Apollo juvenis, Harmonia aut Dea,
Orbémve fecit ille qui Thebas priús.
Et dum canorae doctus increpuit lyrae
Orpheus, sequaces cantibus sylvas trahens,
Allapsa sistens flumina, edomans feras,
Lupus capellae molle dum admittit latus,
Vulsis (que) truncus ambulat radicibus,
Aut rupta rupes; ipse mensuras dedit,
Numerósque saxis; quantitatem non dedit.
Natura sese lege vinxit dispari,
Sibi nixa semper: non ut Aegle morbida,
Quae pelle pictâ, dentibus vel Indicis
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