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? Nulli fere et magna bona et
diuturna contingunt ; non durat nec ad ultimum exit
nisi lenta felicitas. Filium tibi dii immortales non diu
daturi statim talem dederunt, qualis diu effici potest.
Ne illud quidem dicere potes electam te a dis, cui frui
non liceret filio. Circumfer per omnem notorum,
ignotorum frequentiam oculos, occurrent tibi passi
ubique maiora. Senserunt ista magni duces, senserunt principes ; ne deos quidem fabulae immunes
reliquerunt, puto, ut nostrorum funerum levamentum
esset etiam divina concidere. Circumspice, inquam,
omnis; nullam tam 1 miseram nominabis domum, quae
non inveniat in miseriore solacium.
1 tam added by Muretus.
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