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Arrogance!

Ovid (Metamorphoses 15.871–2):

Jāmqu(e) ŏpŭs | ēxē|gī, quōd | nēc Jŏvĭs | īră nĕc | īgnīs
nēc pŏtĕ|rīt fēr|rūm nĕc ĕ|dāx ăbŏ|lērĕ vĕ|tūstās.

And now I have completed a work that neither the wrath of Jupiter nor fire nor the sword nor gluttonous Time can do away with.

Because just being ære perennius is underachieving.

The same stress pattern observed earlier holds here as well.

[For aboleo.]

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