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[3] Nec sane rustico dignum est sciscitari, fuerit ne mulier pulcherrima specie Melissa,1quam Iuppiter in apem convertit, an (ut Euhcmerus poeta dicit) crabronibus et sole genitas apes, quas nymphae Phryxonides educaverunt, mox Dictaeo specu Iovis 2extitisse nutrices, easque pabula munere dei sortitas quibus ipsae parvum 3educaverant alumnum. Ista enim, quamvis non dedeceant poetam, summatim tamen et uno tantummodo versiculo leviter attigit Vergilius, cum sic ait: Dictaeo caeli regem pavere sub antro. 4 5 6 7 8 9 [p. 430]
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