# Anticlaudianus 1.4019-4066

Alanus de Insulis, Anticlaudianus, Lines 1.4019-1.4066. Latin.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/latin/alanus-de-insulis/anticlaudianus/1.4019

Dum sic in fatum concedit iuraque fati
Paupertas, proprium moriens depauperat agmen.
Cetus eget: qui diues erat, dum uixit Egestas,
Ejus diuicie pereunt omnisque facultas
Pauperie pereunte perit; coguntur egere
Conciues, quos illa prius ditauit egendo.
Languescit Labor exhaustus, Sitis effugit, arma
Deicit Esuries, fugiunt Ieiunia, Cure
Depereunt; sic turba minor majore ruina
Deprimitur populusque perit pereunte magistro.
Ergo Quies Penam, Sacies Ieiunia, Curas
Pax fugat, Esuriem deuicit Copia, languet
Vbertate Sitis et uicta Carencia cedit.
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Tunc comitum supplere uolens Intamia casus,
Forcior assurgit, sociorum uendere mortes
Temptat et hostili leto saciare dolorem.
Irruit in iuuenem, sed uerbo preuenit ictum,
Et uerbis accuens conuicia: "Proh pudor!" inquit,
"Gens euo, sensu, cautela, uiribus, armis
Pollens unius iuuenis subcumbet inhermi
Milicie nostraque feret de gente triumphum
Iste puer?" Nec plura loquens, delegat in illum
Telum, demonstrans facto quod uoce minatur.
Missile decurrens cum uerbo uerberat auram,
Nec uice legati pacem denunciat, immo
Bella gerit, cursuque ruens, Infamia telum
Insequitur, telo cursu contendit et hostem
Ense petit, mucrone uolens succurrere telo,
Vt, si forte uiri deludant arma sagitam,
Vel modica teli rabies deseuiat ira,
Teli mucro furens algentes suppleat iras.
Ergo sagita, memor dextre que miserat illam,
Insilit in frontem iuuenis, sed cassis euntem
Sistit, eam retinet, gressus negat, obstat eunti.
Sed teli supplere uolens Infamia lapsum,
Succurrit telo, nudo mucrone, sed ictum
Excipit a galea medius Fauor, ensis ab ictu
Decidit et comitis supplet male dampna sagite.
Sed postquam ducis insultus nil posse clientum
Turba uidet, magis in rabiem succenditur; ergo
Forcius arma rapit, pugnant Contagia, Murmur
Irruit, insurgunt Conuicia, Dedecus instat.
Sed iuuenis nec mente iacet, nec frangitur hoste,
Nec terrore pauet, nec uulnere lesus oberrat,
Sed cornu quo Fama sue preconia laudis
Intonat, ad tempus Fame subducit et hostem
Hoc mucrone ferit, uires in uulnere multo
Monstrat et egressus crebro reseratur in ictu.

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