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Horace 1.23

Chloë, do not to run from me as a timid animal flees a dangerous predator. It is time to leave your mother and be with a man.

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Vitas inuleo me similis, Chloë,
quaerenti pavidam montibus aviis
.........matrem non sine vano
..................aurarum et silvae metu.

nam seu mobilibus veris inhorruit .........................5
adventus foliis, seu virides rubum
.........dimovere lacertae,
..................et corde et genibus tremit.

atqui non ego te tigris ut aspera
Gaetulusve leo frangere persequor: ....................10
.........tandem desine matrem
..................tempestiva sequi viro.

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Meter: Fourth Asclepiadean
1. inuleo: Dative with the adjective similis.
6. adventus: Nominative;
  foliis: Dative with Compound Verb.
7. dimovere: dimoverunt.
8. tremit: sc. inuleus as subject.
9. ut: "like."
10. frangere: infinitive denoting purpose; sc. te.
12. tempestiva: Vocative; take with viro (Dative);
  sequi: Complementary Infinitive with desine.
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