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XVII

Pallas me docuit texendi nosse laborem:
Nec telam radii poscunt nec licia telae;
Nulla mihi manus est, pedibus tantum omnia fiunt.

Peck:

To weave my web, Pallas herself hath taught,
No shuttle hath my web, no threads are caught,
And with my feet are all its wonders wrought.

Ohl:

Pallas taught me to know the toil of weaving. My garments demand not a shuttle nor the warp its heddle. I have no hands, yet by my feet is everything done.

Editor's Additional Notes:

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Ohl's Critical Notes on the Latin Text:

Tit. Araneus A — Hoc aenig. ante XVI habet FGI

1 labore A

2 sic D, Adhelm. Nec tela radio A; Nec telae B telam radii Baehr. — poscho a

3 est om. α

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