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Iam Phoebus breviore via contraxerat ortum
lucis, et obscuri crescebant tempora somni,
iamque suum victrix augebat Cynthia regnum,
et deformis hiemps gratos carpebat honores
divitis autumni, iussoque senescere Baccho
carpebat raras serus vindemitor uvas.
Puto magis intellegi,
si dixero:
mensis erat October,
dies III idus
Octobris.
Horam non possum certam tibi dicere,
facilius inter philosophos quam inter
horologia conveniet,
tamen inter sextam et septimam erat.“
Nimis
rustice”
inquies:
cum omnes poetae,
non contenti ortus et occasus describere,
ut etiam medium diem inquietent,
tu sic transibis horam tam bonam?"
lam medium curru Phoebus diviserat orbem
et propior nocti fessas quatiebat habenas
obliquo flexam deducens tramite lucem: