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1Iam nitidum retegente diem noctisque fugante
2tempora Lucifero cadit eurus, et umida surgunt
3nubila: dant placidi cursum redeuntibus austri
4Aeacidis Cephaloque, quibus feliciter acti
5ante exspectatum portus tenuere petitos.
6Interea Minos Lelegeia litora vastat
7praetemptatque sui vires Mavortis in urbe
8Alcathoi, quam Nisus habet, cui splendidus ostro
9inter honoratos medioque in vertice canos
10crinis inhaerebat, magni fiducia regni.
11Sexta resurgebant orientis cornua lunae,
12et pendebat adhuc belli fortuna: diuque
13inter utrumque volat dubiis Victoria pennis.
14Regia turris erat vocalibus addita muris,
15in quibus auratam proles Letoia fertur
16deposuisse lyram: saxo sonus eius inhaesit.