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1350Nexilis ante fuit vestis quam textile tegmen.
1351textile post ferrumst, quia ferro tela paratur,
1352nec ratione alia possunt tam levia gigni
1353insilia ac fusi, radii, scapique sonantes.
1354et facere ante viros lanam natura coegit coëgit
1355quam muliebre genus; nam longe praestat in arte
1356et sollertius est multo genus omne virile;
1357agricolae donec vitio vertere severi,
1358ut muliebribus id manibus concedere vellent
1359atque ipsi pariter durum sufferre laborem
1360atque opere in duro durarent membra manusque.