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 1  T-II|   wretch, ruined by my own talent?~Why return to the newly
 2  T-II|   speech –~Ennius great in talent, primitive in his art –~
 3 T-III|   My ills have weakened my talent, whose flow~was scant before,
 4  T-IV|   remember) he approved my talent~even more than, in my judgement,
 5   T-V|  the Sarmatians that I’m a talent.~In short, I don’t seek
 6   T-V|   man I was, once more.~My talent’s extinguished by long sufferance
 7   ExI|     he was the guide to my talent. ~Nor, I contend, could
 8   ExI|  poems on humble themes~my talent’s sufficient for the slender
 9   ExI| friend of old, pleasing by talent as well as character.~Your
10 ExIII| there never was any former talent),~my powers gone, am strengthened
11 ExIII| something to the work.~Any talent can catch alight, from the
12 ExIII|   poet, wounded by his own talent.~He offers a greeting to
13 ExIII|  long been lost, try by my talent ~to be one who is not yet