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708Hinc se sustulerat paribus caducifer alis,
709Munychiosque volans agros gratamque Minervae
710despectabat humum cultique arbusta Lycei.
711Illa forte die castae de more puellae
712vertice supposito festas in Palladis arces
713pura coronatis portabant sacra canistris.
714Inde revertentes deus adspicit ales iterque
715non agit in rectum, sed in orbem curvat eundem.
716Ut volucris visis rapidissima miluus extis,
717dum timet et densi circumstant sacra ministri,
718flectitur in gyrum nec longius audet abire
719spemque suam motis avidus circumvolat alis,
720sic super Actaeas agilis Cyllenius arces
721inclinat cursus et easdem circinat auras.
722Quanto splendidior quam cetera sidera fulget
723Lucifer, et quanto quam Lucifer aurea Phoebe,