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The work is no longer protected by copyright and can be found scattered across the internet. I copied this from TheLatinLibrary.com, and used Geoffrey Steadman’s edition as a guide to adding macrons (although assume any errors are mine).
To make the text more accessible, I have highlight the subject of each verb (or group of verbs), as well as just enough of the ending of each verb to show person and number.