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Book 3 · lines 1–15
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1Iamque deus posita fallacis imagine tauri
2se confessus erat Dictaeaque rura tenebat,
3cum pater ignarus Cadmo perquirere raptam
4imperat et poenam, si non invenerit, addit
5exilium, facto pius et sceleratus eodem.
6Orbe pererrato (quis enim deprendere possit
7furta Iovis?) profugus patriamque iramque parentis
8vitat Agenorides Phoebique oracula supplex
9consulit et, quae sit tellus habitanda, requirit.
10“Bos tibi” Phoebus ait “solis occurret in arvis,
11nullum passa iugum curvique inmunis aratri.
12Hac duce carpe vias et qua requieverit herba
13moenia fac condas, Boeotiaque ma vocato.”
14Vix bene Castalio Cadmus descenderat antro,
15incustoditam lente videt ire iuvencam