# REPOSIANUS (circa 280 A.D.) 1.172-182

Reposianus, REPOSIANUS (circa 280 A.D.), Lines 1.172-1.182. Latin.

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Excutitur somno Mavors et pulchra Cythere:
posset Gradivus validos disrumpere nexus,
sed retinebat amor, Veneris ne bracchia laedat.
Tunc tu sub galea, tunc inter tela latebas,
saeve Cupido, timens. Stat Mavors lumine torvo
atque indignatur, quod sit deprensus adulter;
at Paphie conversa dolet non crimina facti,
sed quae sit vindicta sibi tum singula volvens
cogitat et poenam sentit, si Phoebus amaret.
Iamque dolos properans decorabat cornua tauri,
Pasiphaae crimen mixtique cupidinis iram.

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