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. destinat, interior caeli qua semita lueet [*]()
  2. dis tantum, et cunctas iuxta videt ardua terras,
  3. iamque fere medium Parnassi frondea praeter
  4. colla tenebat iter, cum fratrem in nube corusca
  5. aspicit haud solito visu: remeabat ab armis
  6. maestus Echioniis, demersi funera lugens
    7. [*](This line is not in P, and is condemned by some edd.)[*](In some late MSS. after this line follows si non victorem, da tantum cernere victum, grant me to behold him, if not victor, at least vanquished. )[*](cunctis P: iustis ω.)[*](lucet ω: ducit P.)
    v.2.p.300
  7. auguris. inrubuit caeli plaga sidere mixto,
  8. occursuque sacro pariter iubar arsit utrimque,
  9. et coiere arcus et respondere pharetrae.[*]()
  10. ille prior: ‘scio, Labdacias, germana, cohortes
  11. et nimium fortes ausum petis Arcada pugnas.
  12. fida rogat genetrix: utinam indulgere precanti
  13. fata darent! en ipse mei — pudet! — inritus arma
  14. cultoris frondesque sacras ad inania vidi
  15. Tartara et in memet versos descendere vultus;
  16. nec tenui currus terraeque abrupta coegi,
  17. saevus ego immeritusque coli. lugentia cernis
  18. antra, soror, mutasque domos: haec sola rependo
  19. dona pio comiti; nec tu peritura movere
  20. auxilia et maestos in vanum perge labores.