de raptu Proserpinae
Claudian
Claudian, Volume 2. Platnauer, Maurice, editor. Harvard University Press: Cambridge, MA; London, England, 1922.
- Forma loci superat flores : curvata tumore
- parvo planities et mollibus edita clivis
- creverat in collem ; vivo de pumice fontes
- roscida mobilibus lambebant gramina rivis,
- silvaque torrentes ramorum frigore soles
- temperat et medio brumam sibi vindicat aestu :
- apta fretis abies, bellis accommoda cornus,
- quercus amica Iovi, tumulos tectura cupressus,
- ilex plena favis, venturi praescia laurus ;
- fluctuat hic denso crispata cacumine buxus,
- hic hederae serpunt, hic pampinus induit ulmos.
- haud procul inde lacus (Pergum dixere Sicani)
- panditur et nemorum frondoso margine cinctus
- vicinis pallescit aquis : admittit in altum
- cernentes oculos et late pervius umor
- ducit inoffensos liquido sub flumine visus
- imaque perspicui prodit secreta profundi,
- huc elapsa cohors gaudet per florida rura.1
- Hortatur Cytherea legant. “nunc ite, sorores.
- dum matutinis praesudat solibus aer,
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