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.
- purpureos sceptrumque minus? cuncta ignibus atris
- damnat atrox suaque ipse parens gestamina ferri,
- si damnis rabidum queat exsaturare dolorem. [*]()
- Parte alia gnari monitis exercitus instat
- auguris aeriam truncis nemorumque ruina,
- montis opus, [*]() cumulare pyram, quae crimina caesi
- anguis et infausti cremet atra piacula belli,
- his labor accisam Nemeen umbrosaque tempe
- praecipitare solo lucosque ostendere Phoebo,
- sternitur extemplo veteres incaedua ferro
- silva comas, largae qua non opulentior umbrae
- Argolicos inter saltusque educta Lycaeos
- extulerat super astra caput: stat sacra senectae
- numine, nec solos hominum transgressa veterno
- fertur avos, Nymphas etiam mutasse superstes
- Faunorumque greges, aderat miserabile luco
- exscidium: fugere ferae, nidosque tepentes
- absiliunt — metus urget — aves; cadit ardua fagus,
- Chaoniumque nemus brumaeque inlaesa cupressus,
- procumbunt piceae, flammis alimenta supremis,