# Liber Quintus 1.742-753

Statius, Liber Quintus, Lines 1.742-1.753. Latin.

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et meruit; det pulchra suis libamina Virtus
manibus, atque utinam plures innectere pergas,
Phoebe, moras, semperque nouis bellare uetemur
casibus, et semper Thebe funesta recedat.
at uos magnorum transgressi fata parentum
felices, longum quibus hinc per saecula nomen,
dum Lernaea palus et dum pater Inachus ibit,
dum Nemea tremulas campis iaculabitur umbras,
ne fletu uiolate sacrum, ne plangite diuos:
nam deus iste, deus, Pyliae nec fata senectae
maluerit, Phrygiis aut degere longius annis.'
finierat, caeloque cauam nox induit umbram.

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