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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. ast ubi prona dies, longos super aequora fines
  2. exigit atque ingens medio natat umbra profundo,
  3. interiore sinu frangentia litora curvat
  4. Taenaros, expositos non audax scandere [*]() fluctus,
  5. illic Aegaeo Neptunus gurgite fessos
  6. in portum deducit equos, prior haurit harenas
  7. ungula, postremi solvuntur in aequora pisces,
  8. hoc, ut fama, loco pallentes devius umbras
  9. trames agit nigrique Iovis vacua atria ditat
  10. mortibus. Arcadii perhibent si vera coloni,
    11. [*](atque omnes Pω: aeque Unger, alte Lachmann: anguicomus Koch. )[*](iter est Pω: quies conj. Postgate. )[*](ll. 37-40 omitted by Pω though Inserted In the margin by another hand In PBQ. Elsewhere in Statius tonitrus is masculine. )[*](frangentia scandere Pω: scandentia frangere Koestlin (cf. Prop. iv. 1. 125): scindere Kohlmann (but cf. Ach. i. 449). )
    v.1.p.398
  11. stridor ibi et gemitus poenarum, atroque tumultu
  12. fervet ager; saepe Eumenidum vocesque manusque
  13. in medium sonuere diem, Letique [*]() triformis
  14. ianitor agricolas campis auditus abegit.
  15. Hac et tunc fusca volucer deus obsitus umbra
  16. exsilit ad superos, infernaque nubila vultu
  17. discutit et vivis adflatibus ora serenat.
  18. inde per Arcturum mediaeque silentia Lunae
  19. arva super populosque meat. Sopor obvius illi
  20. Noctis agebat equos, trepidusque adsurgit honori