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because they descended to Medea when she invoked the goddess’ help to flee from Jason’s wrath.
    14 Rev. xxi. 19-21: “And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones /… the eighth, beryl… / And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; every several gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass.”
    15 1 Cor. ii. 9: “But it is written, Eve hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.”
In obitum Procancellarii medici
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                    Parére fati discite legibus,
                    Manusque Parcæ 2 jam date supplices,
                      Qui pendulum telluris orbem
                              Jäpeti 3 colitis nepotes.
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       5           Vos si relicto mors vaga Tænaro 4
                    Semel vocârit flebilis, heu moræ
                      Tentantur incassùm dolique;
                              Per tenebras Stygis ire certum est.
                    Si destinatam pellere dextera
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       10         Mortem valeret, non ferus Hercules
                      Nessi venenatus cruore
                              Æmathiâ jacuisset Œtâ. 5
                    Nec fraude turpi Palladis invidæ
                    Vidisset occisum Ilion Hectora, 6 aut
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      15                  Quem 7 larva Pelidis peremit
                              Ense Locro, Jove lacrymante.
                    Si triste fatum verba Hecatëia 8
                    Fugare possint, Telegoni parens 9
                      Vixisset infamis, potentique
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       20                         Ægiali soror 10 usa virgâ.
                    Numenque trinum fallere si queant
                    Artes medentûm, ignotaque gramina,
                      Non gnarus herbarum Machaon
                              Eurypyli cecidisset hastâ. 11
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       25         Læsisset et nec te, Philyreie, 12
                    Sagitta echidnæ perlita sanguine,
                      Nec tela te fulmenque avitum
                              Cæse puer genitricis alvo. 13
                    Tuque O alumno major Apolline,
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       30         Gentis togatæ cui regimen datum,
                      Frondosa quem nunc Cirrha luget,
                              Et mediis Helicon in undis, 14
                    Jam præfuisses Palladio gregi
                    Lætus, superstes, nec sine gloria,
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      35                  Nec puppe lustrasses Charontis
                              Horribiles barathri recessus.
                    At fila rupit Persephone tua
                    Irata, cum te viderit artibus
                      Succoque pollenti tot atris
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       40                         Facibus eripuisse mortis.
                    Colende præses, membra precor tua
                    Molli quiescant cespite, et ex tuo
                      Crescant rosae, calthæque busto,
                              Purpureoque hyacinthus ore.
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       45         Sit mite de te judicium Æaci, 15
                    Subrideatque Ætnæa 16 Proserpina,
                      Interque felices perennis
                              Elysio spatiere campo.
On the death of the