Forsitan et scrobibus quae sint fastigia quaeras.
ausim vel tenui vitem committere sulco.
290Altior ac penitus terrae defigitur arbos,
aesculus in primis, quae quantum vertice ad auras
aetherias, tantum radice in Tartara tendit.
Ergo non hiemes illam, non flabra neque imbres
convellunt; inmota manet, multosque nepotes,
295multa virum volvens durando saecula vincit.
Tum fortis late ramos et bracchia pandens
huc illuc, media ipsa ingentem sustinet umbram.
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