de raptu Proserpinae
Claudian
Claudian, Volume 2. Platnauer, Maurice, editor. Harvard University Press: Cambridge, MA; London, England, 1922.
- flamine rapturus ; si forte adversus aenos
- Aeolus obiecit postes, vanescit inanis
- impetus et fractae redeunt in claustra procellae.
- Tunc Maia genitum, qui fervida dicta reportet,
- imperat acciri. Cyllenius adstitit ales
- somniferam quatiens virgam tectusque galero.
- ipse rudi fultus solio nigraque verendus
- maiestate sedet : squalent inmania foedo
- sceptra situ; sublime caput maestissima nubes
- asperat et dirae riget inclementia formae ;
- terrorem dolor augebat. tunc talia celso
- ore tonat (tremefacta silent dicente tyranno