de consulatu Stilichonis

Claudian

Claudian, Volume 1-2. Platnauer, Maurice, editor. Harvard University Press: Cambridge, MA; London, England, 1922.

  1. iam tibi commissis conscenderat aethera terris,
  2. ancipites rerum ruituro culmine lapsus
  3. aequali cervice subis: sic Hercule quondam
  4. sustentante polum melius librata pependit
  5. machina nec dubiis titubavit Signifer astris
  6. perpetuaque senex subductus mole parumper
  7. obstupuit proprii spectator ponderis Atlas.
  8. Nulli barbariae motus; nil turbida rupto
  9. ordine temptavit novitas, tantoque remoto
  10. principe mutatas orbis non sensit habenas.
  11. nil inter geminas acies, ceu libera frenis,
  12. ausa manus. certe nec tantis dissona linguis
  13. turba nec armorum cultu diversior umquam
  14. confluxit populus: totam pater undique secum
  15. moverat Auroram; mixtis hic Colchus Hiberis,
  16. hic mitra velatus Arabs, hic crine decorus
  17. Armenius; hic picta Saces fucataque Medus,
    18. v.1.p.376
  18. hic gemmata niger tentoria fixerat Indus;
  19. hic Rhodani procera cohors, hic miles alumnus
  20. Oceani. ductor Stilicho tot gentibus unus,