de raptu Proserpinae
Claudian
Claudian, Volume 2. Platnauer, Maurice, editor. Harvard University Press: Cambridge, MA; London, England, 1922.
- colla levant attrita iugis lapsuque sereno
- erecti roseas tendunt ad carmina cristas,
- ecce procul ternis Hecate variata figuris
- exoritur, levisque simul procedit Iacchus
- crinali florens hedera, quem Parthica velat
- tigris et auratos in nodum colligit ungues :
- ebria Maeonius firmat vestigia thyrsus.
- Di, quibus innumerum vacui famulatur Averni
- vulgus iners, opibus quorum donatur avaris
- quidquid in orbe perit, quos Styx liventibus ambit
- interfusa vadis et quos fumantia torquens
- aequora gurgitibus Phlegethon perlustrat anhelisvos