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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Bucolics by Virgil: MENALCAS
"Pollio himself too doth new verses make:
Feed ye a bull now ripe to butt with horn,
And scatter with his hooves the flying sand."
DAMOETAS
"Who loves thee, Pollio, may he thither come
Where thee he joys beholding; ay, for him
Let honey flow, the thorn-bush spices bear."
MENALCAS
"Who hates not Bavius, let him also love
Thy songs, O Maevius, ay, and therewithal
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