Ausonios fines cur mea vela volunt? noluit hoc Caesar. quid, quem fugat ille, tenetis? aspiciat vultus Pontica terra meos. et iubet et merui; nec, quae damnaverit ille, crimina defendi fasque piumque puto. si tamen acta deos numquam mortalia fallunt, a culpa facinus scitis abesse mea. immo ita si scitis, si me meus abstulit error, stultaque mens nobis, non scelerata fuit, quamlibet in minimis, domui si favimus illi, si satis Augusti publica iussa mihi, hoc duce si dixi felicia saecula, proque Caesare tura pius Caesaribusque dedi,
Why do my sails crave the Ausonian land? This was not Caesars will. Why do you detain one whom he drives forth? Let the land of Pontus behold my face. He commands it and I have deserved it; nor do I account it lawful and righteous to defend the sins that he has condemned. Yet if human acts never deceive the gods, ye know that no guilty deed is connected with my fault. Nay, if such your knowledge, if a mistake of mine has carried me away, if stupid was my mind, not criminal, if in matters however small I have supported that house with favour, if the public commands of Augustus were in my eyes sufficient; if under his lead I have sung of a happy age, and for Caesar and his house have loyally offered incense;
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