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Maior Scipiades, Italis qui solus ab oris
in proprium vertit Punica bella caput,
non sine Pieriis exercuit artibus arma :
semper erat vatum maxima cura duci.
5gaudet enim virtus testes sibi iungere Musas ;
carmen amat quisquis carmine digna gerit.
ergo seu patriis primaevus manibus ultor
subderet Hispanum legibus Oceanum,
seu Tyrias certa fracturus cuspide vires
10inferret Libyco signa tremenda mari,
haerebat doctus lateri castrisque solebat
omnibus in medias Ennius ire tubas,
illi post lituos pedites favere canenti
laudavitque nova caede cruentus eques.
15cumque triumpharet gemina Carthagine victa
(hanc vindex patri vicerat, hanc patriae), [p. 40]
cum longi Libyam tandem post funera belli
ante suas maestam cogeret ire rotas :
advexit reduces secum Victoria Musas
20et sertum vati Martia laurus erat.
Noster Scipiades Stilicho, quo concidit alter
Hannibal antiquo saevior Hannibale,
te mihi post quintos annorum Roma recursus
reddidit et votis iussit adesse suis.
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