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Ergasilvs
Iúppiter supreme, servas me measque auges opes,
máximas opimitates opiparasque offers mihi,
laudém lucrum, ludum iocum, festivitatem ferias,
pompám penum, potationis saturitatem, gaudium,
5néc cuiquam homini supplicare ... nunc certum est mihi;
nam vél prodesse amico possum vel inimicum perdere,
ita híc me amoenitate amoena amoenus oneravit dies.
síne sacris hereditatem sum aptus effertissimam.
nunc ád senem cursum capessam hunc Hegionem, cui boni
10tantum affero quantum ipsus a dis optat, atque etiam amplius.
nunc cérta res est, eodem pacto ut comici servi solent
coníciam in collum pallium, primo ex med hanc rem ut audiat;
speróque me ob hunc nuntium aetérnum adepturum cibum.
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