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, grown desirous of saving his pelf, Built a house he was sure would hold none but himself. This enrag'd god Apollo, who Mercury sent, And bid him go ask what his votary meant? "Some foe to my empire has been his adviser: 'Tis of dreadful portent when a poet turns miser! Tell him, Hermes, from me, tell that subject of mine, I have sworn by the Styx, to defeat his design; For wherever he lives, the Muses shall reign; And the Muses, he knows, have a numerous train."

CCE ingens fragmen scopuli, quod vertice summo Desuper impendet, nullo fundamine nixum Decidit in fluctus: maria undique & undique saxa Horrisono stridore tonant, & ad æthera murmur Erigitur; trepidatque suis Neptunus in undis. Nam, longâ venti rabie, atque aspergine crebrâ Æquorei laticis, specus imâ rupe cavatur: Jam fultura ruit, jam summa cacumina nutant; Jam cadit in præceps moles, & verberat undas. Attonitus credas, hinc dejecisse Tonantem Montibus impositos montes, & Pelion altum In capita anguipedum cœlo jaculâsse gigantum. Rh