Silvae

Statius, P. Papinius (Publius Papinius)

Statius, P. Papinius. Statius, Volume 1. Mozley, John Henry, editor. London: William Heinemann; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1928.

  1. et Chios et glaucae certantia Doridi saxa
  2. Lunaque portandis tantum suffecta columnis.
  3. longa supra species: fessis vix culmina prendas
  4. visibus auratique putes laquearia caeli.
  5. hic eum Romuleos proceres trabeataque Caesar
  6. agmina mille simul iussit discumbere mensis,
  7. ipsa sinus accincta Ceres Bacchusque laborat
    8. [*](nec magnum properes escendere caelum Gronovivs: excedere M: ne in m. pr. excedere c. Lundstroem. )[*](campo Pol.: campi M. )[*](Iliacusque nitens et. I hare filled the lacuna of the MSS. thus: Iliacusque nitet multa M, Nilaea Syene Slater, cumulata conj. Phillimore; others in various ways. magnum caelum. i.e. Olympus (22). Some edd. take nec properes " as " do not hasten. )
  8. sufficere, aetherii felix sic orbita fluxit
  9. Triptolemi; sic vitifero [*]() sub palmite nudos
  10. umbravit colles et sobria rura Lyaeus.
  11. Sed mihi non epulas Indisque innixa columnis
  12. robora Maurorum famulasque ex ordine turmas,
  13. ipsum, ipsum cupido tantum spectare vaeavit
  14. tranquillam vultus et maiestate serena
  15. mulcentem radios summittentemque modeste
  16. fortunae vexilla suae; tamen ore nitebat
  17. dissimulatus honos, talem quoque barbarus hostis
  18. posset et ignotae conspectum agnoscere gentes.
  19. non aliter gelida Rhodopes in valle recumbit
  20. dimissis Gradivus equis; sic lubrica ponit