Letter 11025: Ad easdem de itinere suo
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Ad easdem de itinere suo
Casibus innumeris hominum momenta rotantur
instabilique gradu pendula vita meat.
ipsa futurarum titubans mens anxia rerum
Ventura ignorat quid sibi lux pariat.
nam me digressum a vobis Eomundus amator
illa suscepit qua bonitate solet.
hinc citus excurrens Cariacae devehor aulae;
Tincillacensi perferor inde loco.
hinc sacer antistes rapuit me Domitianus,
ad sancti Albini gaudia festa trahens.
inde relaxatus, per plura pericula fessum
puppe sub exigua fluctus et imber agit,
quo gravis incumbens Aquilo subverterat amnem
et male curvatos extulit unda sinus;
nec sua commotos capiebant litora fluctus:
invadunt terras aequora fusa novas.
pascua rura nemus segetes vibuma salictum
viribus iratis una rapina tenet.
huc mihi commisso per confraga murmura ponti
flatibus horrificis laxa fremebat hiems
surgebatque cadens per aquosa cacumina puppis,
ascendens liquidas monte vagante vias;
quo rate suspensa modo nubila nauta tenebat,
gurgite subducto rursus ad arva redit.
fluctibus infestis pelagi spumante procella
assidue rapidas prora bibebat aquas;
aequora lambebant inimica pace carinam,
tristius amplexu nos nocitura suo.
sed mora nulla vetat varias memorare querellas:
post referenda simul murmura corde tego.
hoc mihi praecipue divina potentia praestet,
ut cito felices vos revidere queam.
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