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# Title: Leibniz-Handschriften zur Philologie, Sprachwissenschaften LH 5, 4, 3
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Inferior nulligenius spiravit Olympum
Arcanusque vigor divinae imitamina mentis
Purius haud unquam ostendit mortalibus aegris
Nec vero Alphonsus tantum scivisse videtur,
sidereos quanquam tabulis comprenderit orbes.
Nec Fridericus honos aquilae, si lumina spectes
Ingenii, qui venatus praecepta decori
Scripserat ipse manu; nec Nex Almansor iberi
Maurus agri, Hispani quem nunc quoque carmine tollunt
ille licet patrii linguam ditaverit oris
collectisque sophis Arabum, transfuderit artes
Graecia docta tuas: noster majora tenebat
ipse licet scriptis non ostentaverit artem.
Et nos historias stulti miramur, et omne
quodcunque ex oculis semotum lumina fallit
ingrati hervas soliti contemnere vivos
guos inter, si quis veterum sperabit honores
Noster erit Princeps, dignus quem secula poscant
omnia si posset virtus aequarier annis.
At pater omnipotens haud frustra munera tanto
Contulit ista viro: ruituri opponere secli
func decuit vitiis patriae in discrimine versae.
Cum scissi studiis animi in diversa vocarent
Pars pascenda malis, veteris pars conscia damni
Et nova semiustae metuens incendia matri.
Ille velut pelagi rupes immota resistit
Tela parans, sed queis posset retinere quietem
Tandem ubi cedendum est, stellis urgentibus on
Et semel infausti sonverunt classica belli
Nit cunctatus opem propriis sibi quaerit in armis
certus adesse Deum, quoties depellimus hostem
Marte pio, et cires pariter sociosque tuemum
Non ex