De consolatione Philosophiae 01.04 University of Oxford CLASP Project nick.white@ell.ox.ac.uk £.BOETH.Cons.Phil01.04 Distributed by the University of Oxford under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License Library of Congress Subject Headings Latin Poems De consolatione Philosophiae 01.04
Quisquis composito serenus aeuo Fatum sub pedibus egit superbum Fortunamque tuens utramque rectus Inuictum potuit tenere uultum, Non illum rabies minaeque ponti Versum funditus exagitantis aestum Nec ruptis quotiens uagus caminis Torquet fumificos Veseuus ignes Aut celsas soliti ferire turres Ardentis uia fulminis mouebit. Quid tantum miseri saeuos tyrannos Mirantur sine uiribus furentes? Nec speres aliquid nec extimescas, Exarmaueris impotentis iram; At quisquis trepidus pauet uel optat, Quod non sit stabilis suique iuris, Abiecit clipeum locoque motus Nectit, quia ualeat trahi, catenam.