huic pater Eridanus Venetaeque ex ordine gentes atque Apono gaudens populus, seu bella cieret seu Musas placidus doctaeque silentia vitae mallet et Aonio plectro mulcere labores, non ullum dixere parem; nec notior alter Gradivo iuvenis, nec Phoebo notior alter.
Father Eridanus,c the Venetian clans one and all, and the mend who rejoice in the spring of Aponus'these declared that he had no rival, either in battle or when he preferred the peaceful company of the Muses and the obscurity of a studious life, and charmed away trouble with the music of the lyre. No youth was better known to Mars, and none better known to Apollo.
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