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. si lux [*]() una retro Phylaceida rettulit umbram,
  2. cur nihil exoret, genitor, chelys aut tua manes
  3. aut mea? fas mihi sic patrios contingere vultus,
  4. fas iunxisse manus, et lex quaecumque sequatur.
  5. At vos, umbrarum reges Ennaeaque [*]() Iuno,
  6. si laudanda precor, taedas auferte comasque
  7. Eumenidum; nullo sonet asper ianitor ore,
  8. Centauros Hydraeque greges Scyllaeaque monstra
  9. aversae celent valles, umbramque senilem
  10. invitet ripis, discussa plebe, supremus
  11. vector et in media componat molliter alga.
  12. ite, pii manes Graiumque examina vatum,
  13. inlustremque animam Lethaeis spargite sertis
  14. et monstrate nemus, quo nulla inrupit Erinys.
  15. in quo falsa dies caeloque simillimus aer.
  16. inde tamen venias, melior qua porta malignum
  17. cornea vincit ebur, somnique in imagine monstra,
    18. [*](si lux Heinsius: silua M: sic lux Vollmer. Lacuna before this line acc. to Postgate. )[*](Ennaeaque Gronovius: aecneaque D: Aetnaeaque Pol. the darkness of the night when the Greeks took Troy; he embraced his phantom in the underworld. )
  18. quae solitus, sic sacra Numae ritusque colendos
  19. mitis Aricino dictabat nympha sub antro,
  20. Scipio sic plenos Latio Iove ducere somnos