Living Poets

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me fabulosae Vulture in Apulo<br />
nutricis extra {{#lemma: limina pergulae | ''limina pergulae'' Baehrens: ''limina Pulliae'' m: ''limen Apuliae'' m}}{{#linenum: 10}}<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;ludo fatigatumque somno<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;fronde noua puerum palumbes<br />

texere, mirum quod foret omnibus,<br />
quicumque celsae nidum Aceruntiae<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;saltusque Bantinos et aruum{{#linenum: 15}}<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;pingue tenent humilis Forenti,<br />

ut tuto ab atris corpore uiperis<br />
dormirem et ursis, ut premerer sacra<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;lauroque conlataque myrto,<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;non sine dis animosus infans.{{#linenum: 20}}<br />
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Miraculous doves covered me with fresh leaves in Apulian Vultur as a boy, beyond the threshold of my nurse’s cottage, exhausted from playing and overcome by sleep, which was a wonder to all who inhabit the nest of high Acherontia and the glades of Bantia and the rich fields of low-lying Forentum, so that I should sleep with my body safe from black snakes and bears, covered by sacred laurel and gathered myrtle, a spirited child with the gods on his side.
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