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audax nimium qui freta primusrate tam fragili perfida rupitterrasque suas posterga uidens  animam leuibus credidit auris,dubioque secans aequora cursu                                                                         305potuit tenui fidere lignointer uitae mortisque uicesnimium gracili limite ducto.nondum quisquam sidera norat,stellisque, quibus pingitur aether,                                                                      310non erat usus, nondum pluuiasHyadas poterat uitare ratis,non Oleniae lumina caprae,nec quae sequitur flectitque senexArctica tardus plaustra Bootes,                                                                            315nondum Boreas, nondum Zephyrus    nomen habebant.ausus Tiphys pandere uasto    carbasa pontolegesque nouas scribere uentis:                                                                         320nunc lina sinu tendere toto,nunc prolato pede transuersoscaptare notos, nunc antemnasmedio tutas ponere malo,nunc in summo religare loco,                                                                            325cum iam totos auidus nimiumnauita flatus optat et altorubicunda tremunt sipara uelo.  candida nostri saecula patresuidere procul fraude remota.                                                                             330sua quisque piger litora tangenspatrioque senex factus in aruo,paruo diues nisi quas tuleratnatale solum non norat opes.  bene dissaepti foedera mundi                                                                            335traxit in unum Thessala pinusiussitque pati uerbera pontumpartemque metus fieri nostri    mare sepositum.dedit illa graues improba poenas                                                                       340per tam longos ducta timores,cum duo montes, claustra profundi,hinc atque illinc subito impulsuuelut aetherio gemerent sonitu,spargeret arces nubesque ipsas                                                                          345    mare deprensum.palluit audax Tiphys et omneslabente manu misit habenas,Orpheus tacuit torpente lyraipsaque uocem perdidit Argo.  quid cum Siculi uirgo Pelori,                                                                           350rabidos utero succincta canes,omnis pariter soluit hiatus?quis non totos horruit artustotiens uno latrante malo?quid cum Ausonium dirae pestes                                                                       355uoce canora mare mulcerent,cum Pieria resonans cithara    Thracius Orpheussolitam cantu retinere ratespaene coegit Sirena sequi?                                                                                360quod fuit huius pretium cursus?    aurea pellis                                                                                                     361maiusque mari Medea malum,merces prima digna carina.  nunc iam cessit pontus et omnes    patitur leges:                                                                                                  365non Palladia compacta manuregum referens inclita remos    quaeritur Argo –                                                                                            367quaelibet altum cumba pererrat.terminus omnis motus et urbesmuros terra posuere noua,                                                                                 370nil qua fuerat sede reliquit    peruius orbis:Indus gelidum potat Araxen,Albin Persae Rhenumque bibunt – uenient annis saecula seris,                                                                                375quibus Oceanus uincula rerumlaxet et ingens pateat tellusTethysque nouos detegat orbesnec sit terris ultima Thule.373-374 cf. Virgile ecl. 1,61-62 ante pererratis amborum finibus exsul | aut Ararim Parthus bibet aut Germania Tigrim. 379 cf. Virgile georg.1,30 ultima ThuleHorace carm. 1,3sic te diua potens Cypri,  sic fratres Helenae, lucida sidera,uentorumque regat pater  obstrictis aliis praeter Iapyga,  nauis, quae tibi creditum                                                                 5  debes Vergilium: finibus Atticisreddas incolumem precor  et serues animae dimidium meae.illi robur et aes triplex  circa pectus erat, qui fragilem truci                                               10conmisit pelago ratem  primus, nec timuit praecipitem Africumdecertantem Aquilonibus  nec tristis Hyadas nec rabiem Noti,quo non arbiter Hadriae                                                                   15  maior, tollere seu ponere uolt freta.quem mortis timuit gradum  qui siccis oculis monstra natantia,qui uidit mare turbidum et  infamis scopulos Acroceraunia?                                                    20nequiquam deus abscidit  prudens oceano dissociabiliterras, si tamen inpiae  non tangenda rates transiliunt uada.  audax omnia perpeti                                                                        25  gens humana ruit per uetitum nefas,audax Iapeti genus  ignem fraude mala gentibus intulit.post ignem aetheria domo  subductum macies et noua febrium                                               30terris incubuit cohors  semotique prius tarda necessitasleti corripuit gradum.  expertus uacuum Daedalus aerapinnis non homini datis;                                                                  35  perrupit Acheronta Herculeus labor.nil mortalibus ardui est:  caelum ipsum petimus stultitia nequeper nostrum patimur scelus  iracunda Iouem ponere fulmina.                                                    40Ennius Medea exul 205-213 Ribbeck3 = 208-216 Jocelyn ap. rhet. Her. 2,34utinam ne in nemore Pelio securibus caesa accidisset abiegna ad terram trabes,neue inde nauis inchoandi exordium                                                  210cepisset, quae nunc nominatur nomineArgô, quia Argiui in ea delecti uiri uecti petebant pellem inauratam arietisColchis, imperio regis Peliae, per dolum.nam numquam era errans mea domo efferret pedem                           215Medea animo aegro amore saeuo saucia.Virgile ecl. 4,31. 34-35pauca tamen suberunt priscae uestigia fraudis[…]alter erit tum Tiphys et altera quae uehat Argo  delectos heroas.