Quid dignum memorare tuis, Hispania, terris<\/p>\n
vox humana valet? primo levat aequore solem<\/p>\n
India: tu fessos exacta luce iugales<\/p>\n
proluis inque tuo respirant sidera fluctu.<\/p>\n
dives equis, frugum facilis, pretiosa metallis,<\/p>\n
principibus fecunda piis, tibi saecula debent \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 55<\/p>\n
Traianum; series his fontibus Aelia fluxit.<\/p>\n
hinc senior pater, hinc iuvenum diademata fratrum.<\/p>\n
namque aliae gentes, quas foedere Roma recepit<\/p>\n
aut armis domuit, varios aptantur in usus<\/p>\n
imperii; Phariae segetes et Punica messis \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 60<\/p>\n
castrorum devota cibo; dat Gallia robur<\/p>\n
militis; Illyricis sudant equitatibus alae:<\/p>\n
sola novum Latiis vectigal Hiberia rebus<\/p>\n
contulit Augustos. fruges, aeraria, miles<\/p>\n
undique conveniunt totoque ex orbe leguntur: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a065<\/p>\n
haec generat qui cuncta regant. nec laude virorum<\/p>\n
censeri contenta fuit, nisi matribus aeque<\/p>\n
vinceret et gemino certatim splendida sexu<\/p>\n
Flaccillam Mariamque daret pulchramque Serenam.<\/p>\n
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