[20] et teneram ab radice ferens silvane c. Silvanus deus est silvarum. hic amavit puerum Cyparissum nomine, qui habebat mansuetissimam cervam. hanc cum Silvanus nescius occidisset, puer est extinctus dolore: quem amator deus in cupressum arborem nominis eius vertit, quam pro solacio portare dicitur. sane in bu- colicis alium illi habitum dedit "venit et agresti capitis Silvanus honore". quidam Silvanum primum instituisse plantationes dicunt, ideo 'tenera ab radice' poetam dixisse. an 'ab radice tenera', quia caesa cupressus dicitur non renasci, id est invalida? an ab radice tenens?
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