Quid si peteretur crimine tanto limes uterque poli, quem Sol emissus Eoo cardine, quem porta vergens prospectat Hibera, quasque procul terras obliquo… - Publius Papinius Statius

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Quid si peteretur crimine tanto
limes uterque poli, quem Sol emissus Eoo
cardine, quem porta vergens prospectat Hibera,
quasque procul terras obliquo sidere tangit
avius aut Borea gelidas madidive tepentes
igne Noti?

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Publius Papinius Statius (c. 45 – c. 96) was a Roman poet of the Silver Age of Latin literature.

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Native Name: Statius
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For what cause, youthful Sleep, kindest of gods, or what error have I deserved, alas to lack your boon? All cattle are mute and birds and beasts, and the nodding tree-tops feign weary slumbers, and the raging rivers abate their roar; the ruffling of the waves subsides, the sea is still, leaning against the shore.

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