![]() Pergamus, more fortunate by far than pine-clad Ida, though Ida pride herself on the cloud of a holy rape-for surely she gave the High Ones him 2 at whom Juno ever looks askance, recoiling from his hand and refusing the nectar: but you have the gods’ favor, specially commended by your fair nursling. Perhaps he in turn will sever the beauty of his own unfailing hair and place it for you enclosed in other gold. Let him compare them how beautifully they shine, and long think they are from his brother Lyaeus. ego isti 200Īccept, son of Phoebus, 1 the lauded tresses that Caesar’s lad presents to you accept them gladly and show them to your unshorn father. miratur puerile decus, vultumque comasque aspiciens “tune Ausonias” ait “ibis ad arces neglectus Veneri? tu sordida tecta iugumque servitii vulgare feres? procul absit. ![]() ac primum subita paulum decepta figura natorum de plebe putat sed non erat illi 30 arcus et ex umeris nullae fulgentibus umbrae. hic puerum egregiae praeclarum sidere formae ipsius ante dei ludentem conspicit aras. Dicitur Idalios Erycis de vertice lucos dum petit et molles agitat Venus aurea cycnos Pergameas intrasse domos, ubi maximus aegris auxiliator adest et festinantia sistens 25 Fata salutifero mitis deus incubat angui. Pergame, pinifera multum felicior Ida, illa licet sacrae placeat sibi nube rapinae (nempe dedit superis illum quem turbida semper 15 Iuno videt refugitque manum nectarque recusat), at tu grata deis pulchroque insignis alumno misisti Latio placida quem fronte ministrum Iuppiter Ausonius pariter Romanaque Iuno aspiciunt et uterque probant, nec tanta potenti 20 terrarum domino divum sine mente voluptas. 10 forsan et ipse comae numquam labentis honorem praemetet atque alio clusum tibi ponet in auro. sine dulce nitentes comparet atque diu fratris putet esse Lyaei. Accipe laudatos, iuvenis Phoebeie, crines quos tibi Caesareus donat puer, accipe laetus intonsoque ostende patri.
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