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Tempore si nostro debetur gloria furtis,
Si sceleri dantur praemia et insidiis,
Iure sibi poscit noster Patriarcha galerum:
Reddenda est capiti purpura tam merito.
5Quid iuvat imperium Romam mutasse feroque
Pro Mavorte pium nunc coluisse Petrum?
Serviat an turpi Veneto, quem turbida semper
Consilia exagitat Eumenidesque trahunt?
Saevisti in populos decimum iam, dyre, per annum.
10Umbria quas clades sentit, et Aemilia!
Immerita, heu, quotiensfoedasti caede secures,
Qualem iam passa est, te duce, Roma, Nero!
Sed mala praeteriti superant praesentia facta.
Quo ruis et iactas, sanguinolente, faces?
15Fulmina quid faciunt? Senuisti, Iuppiter? Et tu
Ultrices cessas, Xyste, movere manus?
Lusisti nunuis, tamam I triamque, pudorern;
Crede mihi: h.rdes inni, Patriarchi, caput.
Lusisti numos, famam patriamque, pudorem;
20Crede mihi: ludes iam, Patriarcha, caput.
1 Pantagathus in Patriarcham
epigrammata (Caterina Malta, 2004).
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