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si quid inexpertum scaenae conmittis et audes
personam formare novam, servetur ad imum,
qualis ab incepto processerit, et sibi constet.
difficile est proprie communia dicere, tuque
rectius Iliacum carmen deducis in actus
quam si proferres ignota indictaque primus:
publica materies privati iuris erit, si
non circa vilem patulumque moraberis orbem
nec verbo verbum curabis reddere fidus
interpres nec desilies imitator in artum,
unde pedem proferre pudor vetet aut operis lex,
nec sic incipies, ut scriptor cyclicus olim:
'fortunam Priami cantabo et nobile bellum.'
quid dignum tanto feret hic promissor hiatu?
parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus.
quanto rectius hic, qui nil molitur inepte: