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Book 9 · lines 630–644
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630Dixit, et (incertae tanta est discordia mentis)
631cum pigeat temptasse, libet temptare: modumque
632exit et infelix committit saepe repelli.
633Mox ubi finis abest, patriam fugit ille nefasque
634inque peregrina ponit nova moenia terra.
635Tum vero maestam tota Miletida mente
636defecisse ferunt, tum vero a pectore vestem
637diripuit planxitque suos furibunda lacertos.
638Iamque palam est demens inconcessamque fatetur
639spem veneris, siquidem patriam invisosque penates
640deserit et profugi sequitur vestigia fratris.
641Utque tuo motae, proles Semeleia, thyrso
642Ismariae celebrant repetita triennia bacchae,
643Byblida non aliter latos ululasse per agros
644Bubasides videre nurus. Quibus illa relictis