Nunc si forte meis quae sint exordia Musis scire petis, iam Sidonios emensa labores Thebais optato collegit carbasa portu Parnasique iugis silvaque Heliconide festis tura dedit flammis et virginis exta iuvencae votiferaque meas suspendit ab arbore vittas.
Now if perchance you would know what my Muse essays, the Thebaid has already accomplished her Sidonian labors and furled her sails in longed-for haven. On Parnassus ridges and the woods of Helicon she has given incense and the entrails of a virgin heifer to the festal flames and hung my chaplets from a votive tree.
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