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. quis deus, unde ignes, quae ducat semita solem,
  2. quae minuat Phoeben quaeque integrare latentem
  3. causa queat, notique modos extendis Arati,
  4. seu tu Lethaei secreto in gramine campi
  5. concilia heroum iuxta manesque beatos.
  6. Maeonium Ascraeumque senem, non segnior umbra
  7. accolis alternumque sonas et carmina misces:
  8. da vocem magno, pater, ingeniumque dolori,
  9. nam me ter relegens caelo [*]() terque ora retexens
  10. Luna videt residem nullaque Heliconide tristes
  11. solantem curas; tuus ut mihi vultibus ignis
  12. inrubuit cineremque oculis umentibus hausi,
  13. vilis honos studiis, vix haec in munera solvo
  14. primum animum, tacitisque situm depellere curis [*]()
    15. [*](caelo M: caelum Heinsius. )[*](tacitis curis M: tactis chordis Polster. poem was written three months after his father's death; still in any case he must have kept it by him for a long while before publishing it—if indeed the publication was not posthumous. )
  15. nunc etiam labente manu nec lumine sicco
  16. ordior adclinis tumulo, quo molle quiescis
  17. iugera nostra tenens, ubi post Aeneia fata
  18. stellatus Latiis ingessit montibus Albam
  19. Ascanius, Phrygio dum pingues sanguine campos
  20. odit et infaustae regnum dotale novercae.