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563Nescit Agenorides natam parvumque nepotem
564aequoris esse deos: luctu serieque malorum
565victus et ostentis, quae plurima viderat, exit
566conditor urbe sua, tamquam fortuna locorum,
567non sua se premeret; longisque erroribus actus
568contigit Illyricos profuga cum coniuge fines.
569Iamque malis annisque graves, dum prima retractant
570fata domus releguntque suos sermone labores,
571“num sacer ille mea traiectus cuspide serpens”
572Cadmus ait “fuerat, tum, cum Sidone profectus
573vipereos sparsi per humum, nova semina, dentes?
574Quem si cura deum tam certa vindicat ira,
575ipse precor serpens in longam porrigar alvum.”
576Dixit, et ut serpens in longam tenditur alvum
577durataeque cuti squamas increscere sentit