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AVIENI V. C.
AD AMICOS.
Rure morans, quid agam, respondi,
pauca rogatus:
Mane, deum exoro famulos, post arvaque
viso,
Partitusque meis justos indico labores;
Inde
lego, Phoebumque cio, Musamque lacesso;
Tunc oleo
corpus fingo, mollique palaestra
Stringo libens animo,
gaudensque ac foenore liber
Prandeo, poto, cano, ludo,
lavo, caeno, quiesco.
ENGLISHED.
Ask'd in
the country what I did, I said:
I view my men and
meads, first having pray'd;
Then each of mine hath
his just task outlay'd;
I read, Apollo court, I rouse
my Muse;
Then I anoynt me, and stript willing loose
My self on a soft plat, from us'ry blest;
I dine,
drink, sing, play, bath, I sup, I rest.
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