Psychomachia
Prudentius
Prudentius, Volume 1. Thomson, H. J, editor. London; Cambridge, Mass.: William Heinemann Ltd., Harvard University Press, 1949 (printing).
- distantesque nitor medius variabat honores,
- hic chalcedon hebes perfunditur ex hyacinthi
- lumine vicino; nam forte cyanea propter
- stagna lapis cohibens ostro fulgebat aquoso.
- sardonicem pingunt amethystina, pingit iaspis
- sardium iuxta adpositum pulcherque topazon.
- has inter species smaragdina gramine verno
- prata virent volvitque vagos lux herbida fluctus,
- te quoque conspicuum structura interserit, ardens
- chrysoprase, et sidus saxis stellantibus addit.
- stridebat gravidis funalis machina vinclis
- inmensas rapiens alta ad fastigia gemmas,
- at domus interior septem subnixa columnis
- crystalli algentis vitrea de rupe recisis
- construitur, quarum tegit edita calculus albens
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