Tum Iuno omnipotens, longum miserata dolorem
difficilisque obitus, Irim demisit Olympo,
695quae luctantem animam nexosque resolveret artus.
Nam quia nec fato, merita nec morte peribat,
sed misera ante diem, subitoque accensa furore,
nondum illi flavum Proserpina vertice crinem
abstulerat, Stygioque caput damnaverat Orco.
700Ergo Iris croceis per caelum roscida pennis,
mille trahens varios adverso sole colores,
devolat, et supra caput adstitit: “Hunc ego Diti
sacrum iussa fero, teque isto corpore solvo.”
Sic ait, et dextra crinem secat: omnis et una
705dilapsus calor, atque in ventos vita recessit.
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