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| − | ==Anonymous Elegy to Maecenus 1.57-68==
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| − | O Hercules, energetic Alcidean, unwearied after so many labors, so
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| − | they recall, even so You laid aside Your cares and made delightful
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| − | play with a tender girl, having forgotten the Nemean lion, and also
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| − | the Erymanthian boar. What should come afterward? Twisting spindles
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| − | with Your thumbs, biting smooth the rough threads in Your mouth.
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| − | Lydian Omphale beat you for repeatedly knotting and breaking the
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| − | thread with Your rough hands. Often she would lead You as one of her
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| − | spinning maidens dressed in flowing robes. Your knotty club together
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| − | with the lion's skin was thrown down to the ground, and Amor danced
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| − | upon them with light feet. Who would have thought that would come
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| − | about when as a babe You strangled monstrous serpents with hands that
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| − | could barely grasp, or when You swiftly cut off the heads of the
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| − | Hydra as each grew back again? or conquered the savage steeds of
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| − | Diomede, or when alone You fought the three brothers who shared a
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| − | common body and contended with six hands? After the Lord of Olympus
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| − | routed the sons of Aloeus they say He rested on a bed until the
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| − | bright of day, and then sent His eagle in search and bring back
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| − | anyone worthy to lovingly serve Jove, until in an Idaean valley he
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| − | found You, handsome priest, and gently carried You away in his
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| − | ==L. Apuleius Madaurensis, Metamorphoses sive Asinus aureus 9.21 ==
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| − | dignus hercules, dignus, qui et ista vincula conteras et insuper
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| − | carceris etiam tenebras perferas.
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| − | Fittingly, by Hercules, fittingly, if you let the time pass in
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| − | patience, your bonds, your imprisonment also you may endure.
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| − | ==Corpus Inscriptiones Latinae I 1290==
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| − | Lucius Aufidius, son of Decius, deservedly devotes this gift to you,
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| − | Hercules, to pay an annual tithe (for the upkeep of your shrine). At
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| − | the same time he asks of You, You who are a holy God, to help him and
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| − | give him Your peace.
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| − | ==Corpus Inscriptiones Latinae VI 312==
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| − | Te precor Alcide sacris / Invicte peractis / rite tuis laetus dona /
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| − | ferens meritis / haec tibi nostra potest / tenuis perferre camena /
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| − | nam grates dignas tu / potes efficere / sume libens simulacra / tuis
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| − | quae munera Cilo / aris urbanus dedicat / ipse sacris
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| − | ==Corpus Inscriptiones Latinae VI 319==
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| − | Argive Hercules Victor, to you the urban praetor Veldumnianus Iunius
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| − | offers a gift in this place.
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| − | ==P. Horatius Flaccus, Sermones 2.6==
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| − | Oh that some accident would discover to me an urn [full] of money! as
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| − | it did to him, who having found a treasure, bought that very ground
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| − | he before tilled in the capacity of an hired servant, enriched by
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| − | Hercules' being his friend. if what I have at present satisfies me
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| − | grateful, I supplicate you with this prayer: make my cattle fat for
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| − | the use of their master, and everything else, except my genius:3 and,
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| − | as you are wont, be present as my chief guardian. Wherefore, when I
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| − | have removed myself from the city to the mountains and my castle,
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| − | (what can I polish, preferably to my satires and prosaic muse?)
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| − | neither evil ambition destroys me, nor the heavy south wind, nor the
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| − | sickly autumn, the gain of baleful Libitina.
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| − | ==P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses 15.39-40==
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| − | O Hercules, to whom twelve labors was given, help me, I pray, since
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| − | you are witness to the accusations made against me.
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| − | ==Aulus Persius Flaccus, Satura 2.10-15==
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| − | 'o si
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| − | sub rastro crepet argenti mihi seria dextro
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| − | Hercule! pupillumue utinam, quem proximus heres
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| − | inpello, expungam; nam et est scabiosus et acri
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| − | bile tumet. Nerio iam tertia conditur uxor.'
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| − | ==T. Maccius Plautus, Asinaria 467==
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| − | By Hercules, may all the gods damn him.
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| − | ==T. Maccius Plautus, Curculio 358 ==
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| − | Be silent a while. He threw a most losing cast. I took up the dice,
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| − | and invoked Hercules as my genial patron; I threw a first-rate cast,
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| − | and pledged him in a bumping cup; in return he drank it off, reclined
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| − | his head, and fell fast asleep. I slyly took away from him the ring,
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| − | and took my legs quietly from off the couch, so that the Captain
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| − | mightn't perceive it. The servants enquired whither I was going; I
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| − | said that I was going whither persons when full are wont to go. When
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| − | I beheld the door, at once on the instant I took myself away from the
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| − | [Most losing cast: When playing with the "tali," or "knucklebone
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| − | dice," with only four marked sides, they used sets of four. "Volturii
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| − | quatuor" (literally, "the four vultures") was the most unlucky throw
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| − | of all, and is supposed to have been four ones. The first-rate cast:
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| − | The best throw with the "tali" was called "Venus" or "Venereus
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| − | jactus," when the dice turned up 2, 3, 4, and 5. As it was by this
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| − | throw that the Romans chose the King of the Feast, it received the
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| − | name of "Basilicus," "the king's throw."]
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| − | ==T. Maccius Plautus, Bacchides 892==
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| − | So may Jupiter, Juno, Ceres, Minerva, Spes, Latona, Ops, Virtus,
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| − | Venus, Castor, Pollux, Mars, Mercury, Hercules, Summanus; the Sun,
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| − | Saturn, and all the Deities, prosper me, he neither reclines with
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| − | her, nor walks, nor kisses, nor does that which is wont to be
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| − | ==Propertius Eligiae 4.9.71-4==
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| − | Because Your hands have purified the Earth, the Sabines of Cures
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| − | called You Sancus, The Holy One. Hail Father Sancus, whom austere
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| − | Juno now favors. O Sancus, may You wish to be with me and Your
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| − | spirit be in my books.
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| − | ==Silius Italicus Punica 1.505-7==
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| − | Hercules, Founder of our city (Saguntum), you who are called Alcidus,
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| − | in whose footsteps we now reside on this hallowed earth, avert the
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| − | threatening storms from our land.
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| − | ==Statius Silvae 3.1.23-28==
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| − | Come hither, Hercules, who, now free of your obligations, may choose
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| − | whether to live in your native Argos and spurn death as Eurystheus
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| − | buried in his tomb, or whether your virtue has won you a place among
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| − | the stars beneath the throne of your father Jupiter, and Hebe, better
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| − | than Phrygian Ganymede, with her robe girded, offers you a cup of
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| − | blessed nectar to drink, come hither, and grace this newly dedicated
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| − | temple with the presence of your genius.
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| − | ==Statius Silvae 3.1.154-58==
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| − | Why not arouse yourself, Hercules, to come and to graciously honour
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| − | these feats of the festival we hold in your name; whether to split
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| − | the clouds with your discus, or send your javelin speeding more
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| − | swiftly than Zephyrs, or whether it please you to lock arms in a
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| − | Libyan wrestling competition, indulge our ceremonies with your divine
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| − | ==Virgil Aeneid 8.301-2==
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| − | Hail, Hercules, true son of Jove, an added Glory for the Gods are
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| − | you. Come now, and dance at your holy rites with skillful feet.
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