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Book 2 · lines 633–648
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633Semifer interea divinae stirpis alumno
634laetus erat mixtoque oneri gaudebat honore.
635Ecce venit rutilis umeros protecta capillis
636filia Centauri, quam quondam nympha Chariclo
637fluminis in rapidi ripis enixa vocavit
638Ocyroen. Non haec artes contenta paternas
639edidicisse fuit: fatorum arcana canebat.
640Ergo ubi vaticinos concepit mente furores
641incaluitque deo, quem clausum pectore habebat,
642adspicit infantem “toto” que “salutifer orbi
643cresce puer” dixit: “tibi se mortalia saepe
644corpora debebunt; animas tibi reddere ademptas
645fas erit; idque semel dis indignantibus ausus
646posse dare hoc iterum flamma prohibebere avita
647eque deo corpus fies exsangue, deusque,
648qui modo corpus eras, et bis tua fata novabis.