Flower-laden, nor of summer with her fruits;

But without counsel fared their whole life long,

Until I showed the risings of the stars,

And settings hard to recognise.[[165]] And I

Found Number for them, chief device of all,

[*]Groupings of letters, Memory's handmaid that,

And mother of the Muses.[[166]] And I first

Bound in the yoke wild steeds, submissive made

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Or to the collar or men's limbs, that so