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. aversae celent valles, umbramque senilem
  2. invitet ripis, discussa plebe, supremus
  3. vector et in media componat molliter alga.
  4. ite, pii manes Graiumque examina vatum,
  5. inlustremque animam Lethaeis spargite sertis
  6. et monstrate nemus, quo nulla inrupit Erinys.
  7. in quo falsa dies caeloque simillimus aer.
  8. inde tamen venias, melior qua porta malignum
  9. cornea vincit ebur, somnique in imagine monstra,
    10. [*](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. )
  10. quae solitus, sic sacra Numae ritusque colendos
  11. mitis Aricino dictabat nympha sub antro,
  12. Scipio sic plenos Latio Iove ducere somnos
  13. creditur Ausoniis, sic [*]() non sine Apolline Sylla
  1. Crimine quo merui, iuvenis placidissime divum,
  2. quove errore miser, donis ut solus egerem,
  3. Somne, tuis? tacet omne pecus volucresque feraeque
  4. et simulant fessos curvata cacumina somnos,
  5. nec trucibus fluviis idem sonus; occidit horror
  6. aequoris, et terris maria adclinata quiescunt.
  7. septima iam rediens Phoebe mihi respicit aegras