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.
- aversae celent valles, umbramque senilem
- invitet ripis, discussa plebe, supremus
- vector et in media componat molliter alga.
- ite, pii manes Graiumque examina vatum,
- inlustremque animam Lethaeis spargite sertis
- et monstrate nemus, quo nulla inrupit Erinys.
- in quo falsa dies caeloque simillimus aer.
- inde tamen venias, melior qua porta malignum
- cornea vincit ebur, somnique in imagine monstra, [*](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. )
- quae solitus, sic sacra Numae ritusque colendos
- mitis Aricino dictabat nympha sub antro,
- Scipio sic plenos Latio Iove ducere somnos
- creditur Ausoniis, sic [*]() non sine Apolline Sylla