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 1 1 |       diverted by either fear or favor. I shall tell the
 2 1 |      must be born either king or fool. If I please to answer,
 3 4 |  Joyously plied the plectrum, or aided the work of the spinners:~
 4 4 |    scattered stars to flight, or like Hesper at nightfall,~
 5 4 |     Rising when stars return; or e’en as the Sun,—when Aurora~
 6 5 |     was threatening something or other, for he kept shaking
 7 5 |    but he wasn’t either Greek or Roman or of any known race.
 8 5 |       t either Greek or Roman or of any known race. Then
 9 7 |     Tell me the truth, quick, or I’ll knock the silliness
10 7 |     you call your natal town,~Or else, by this tough cudgel
11 7 |     to say?~Where is the land or race to own your shaky head?~
12 8 |     Varro says, ‘without head or prepuce’? Yet there is something
13 9 |    the fruit of the corn-land or those whom the fruitful
14 9 | Senate shall be made, called, or depicted as a god, is to
15 10|       understood their cases, or even listened to them. Where
16 13|     door, where lay Cerberus, or as Horace says, “the beast
17 14|      some desire, without end or consummation. Then Aeacus