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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. contentus ferro cingi latus; arma manipli
  2. pone ferunt, volucres portis auriga sub ipsis
  3. comit equos, et iam inde iugo luctatur Arion.
  4. huic armat Larissa viros, huic celsa Prosymna,
  5. aptior armentis Midea pecorosaque Phlius,
    6. [*](ll. 29, 30 omitted by ω, 31 omitted by P. possibly correctly, " content with a bodyguard," and arma ferunt as march, fully armed. comparing vii. 501 " multoque latus praefulgurat ense," also " ferrum " in i. 148, iv. 145. )
    v.1.p.510
  6. quaeque pavet longa spumantem valle Charadron
  7. Neris, et ingenti turritae mole Cleonae
  8. et Lacedaemonium Thyrea lectura [*]() cruorem,
  9. iunguntur memores transmissi ab origine regis,
  10. qui Drepani scopulos et oliviferae Sicyonis
  11. culta serunt, quos pigra vado Strangilla [*]() taeenti
  12. lambit et anfractu riparum incurvus Elisson.
  13. saevus honos fluvio: Stygias lustrare severis
  14. Eumenidas perhibetur aquis; huc mergere suetae
  15. ora et anhelantes poto Phlegethonte cerastas,
  16. seu Thracum vertere domos, seu tecta Mycenes
  17. impia Cadmeumve larem; fugit ipse natantes
  18. amnis, et innumeris livescunt stagna venenis,
  19. it comes Inoas Ephyre solata querellas
  20. Cenchreaeque manus, vatum qua conscius amnis