de raptu Proserpinae

Claudian

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

  1. colla levant attrita iugis lapsuque sereno
  2. erecti roseas tendunt ad carmina cristas,
  3. ecce procul ternis Hecate variata figuris
  4. exoritur, levisque simul procedit Iacchus
  5. crinali florens hedera, quem Parthica velat
  6. tigris et auratos in nodum colligit ungues :
  7. ebria Maeonius firmat vestigia thyrsus.
  8. Di, quibus innumerum vacui famulatur Averni
  9. vulgus iners, opibus quorum donatur avaris
  10. quidquid in orbe perit, quos Styx liventibus ambit
  11. interfusa vadis et quos fumantia torquens
  12. aequora gurgitibus Phlegethon perlustrat anhelisvos