The Asse Eating the Aeneids

A wretched asse the Aeneids did destroy:
A horse or asse is still the fate of Troy.

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AUSONIUS LIB. EPIG.

Trinarii quodam currentem in littoris ora
  Ante canes leporem caeruleus rapuit;
At<101.1> lepus: in me omnis terrae pelagique rapina est,
  Forsitan et coeli, si canis astra tenet.

ENGLISHED.

On the Sicilian strand a hare well wrought
Before the hounds was by a dog-fish caught;
Quoth she: all rape of sea and earth's on me,
Perhaps of heav'n, if there a dog-star be.

<101.1> Qu. a contraction of AIT.

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