Thebais

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. Gorgoneo percussus equo, quaque obiacet alto
  2. Isthmos et a terris maria inclinata repellit.
  3. haec manus Adrastum numero ter mille secuti
  4. exsultant; pars gaesa manu. pars robora flammis
  5. indurata diu—non unus namque maniplis
  6. mos neque sanguis—habent, teretes pars vertere [*]() fundas
  7. adsueti vacuoque diem praecingere gyro.
    8. [*](Thyrea lectura Weber: thyla electura P: thyre lectura ω. )[*](Strangilla P: stagilla D: Langia ω (but Langia is near Nemea); various conjectures haec been made. )[*](vertere ω: vertice P. Garrod reads teretis fundae here, and conj. vacuomque. was the subject of constant fighting between Argives and Spartans down to as late as a hundred years after Statius's time. thither from Argos owing to a feud, but subsequently returned to Argos; cf, ii. 179. )
    v.1.p.512
  8. ipse annis sceptrisque subit venerabilis aeque:
  9. ut possessa diu taurus meat arduus inter
  10. pascua iam laxa cervice et inanibus armis,
  11. dux tamen: haud illum bello adtemptare iuvencis
  12. sunt animi; nam trunca vident de vulnere multo
  13. cornua et ingentes plagarum in pectore nodos.
  14. Proxima longaevo profert Dircaeus Adrasto
  15. signa gener, cui bella favent,[*]() cui commodat iras
  16. cuncta cohors: huic et patria de sede volentes
  17. advenere viri, seu quos movet exsul et haesit
  18. tristibus aucta fides, seu quis mutare potentes
  19. praecipuum, multi, melior quos causa querenti
  20. conciliat; dederat nec non ipse regendas