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Statius, P. Papinius (Publius Papinius)

Statius, P. Papinius. Statius, Volumes 1-2. Mozley, John Henry, editor. London: William Heinemann; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1928.

  1. Hesperidum et dirum Phrixei velleris aurum;
  2. tum varias pestes raptumque interplicat atro
  3. Tisiphones de crine ducem, et quae pessima ceston
  4. vis probat; haec circum spumis lunaribus ungit
  5. callidus atque hilari perfundit cuncta veneno.
  6. non hoc Pasithea blandarum prima sororum,
  7. non Decor Idaliusque puer, sed Luctus et Irae
    8. [*](sed Pω: et Baehrens, who with most edd. punctuates after malorum, whence Lachmann condemned 268. contrived. It was fitted with chains which closed upon Venus and Mars as they lay together on the bed. (See Horn. Od. viii. 266 f.) Harmonia was the daughter of Venus and Mars. sun when turned into poplars, but he calls them Hesperides (as being in the west) instead of Heliades. )
    v.1.p.416
  8. et Dolor et tota pressit Discordia dextra.
  9. prima fides operi. Cadmum comitata iacentem
  10. Harmonia versis in sibila dira querellis
  11. Illyricos longo suleavit pectore campos.
  12. improba mox Semele vix dona nocentia collo
  13. induit, et fallax intravit limina Iuno.
  14. teque etiam, infelix, perhibent, locasta. decorum
  15. possedisse nefas; vultus hac laude [*]() colebat,
  16. heu quibus, heu placitura toris! post longior ordo.
  17. tunc donis Argia nitet vilisque sororis
  18. ornatus sacro praeculta supervenit auro.
  19. viderat hoc coniunx perituri vatis et aras
  20. ante omnis epulasque trucem secreta coquebat