de raptu Proserpinae

Claudian

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

  1. haec metuenda feris. Tritonia casside fulva
  2. caelatum Typhona gerit, qui summa peremptus
  3. ima parte viget, moriens et parte superstes ;
  4. hastaque terribili surgens per nubila ferro
  5. instar habet silvae ; tantum stridentia colla
  6. Gorgonis obtentu pallae fulgentis inumbrat.
  7. at Triviae lenis species et multus in ore
  8. frater erat, Phoebique genas et lumina Phoebi
  9. esse putes, solusque dabat discrimina sexus.
  10. brachia nuda nitent ; levibus proiecerat auris
  11. indociles errare comas, arcuque remisso
  12. otia nervus agit ; pendent post terga sagittae.
  13. crispatur gemino vestis Gortynia cinctu
  14. poplite fusa tenus, motoque in stamine Delos
  15. errat et aurato trahitur circumflua ponto.
  16. Quas inter Cereris proles, nunc gloria matris,
  17. mox dolor, aequali tendit per gramina passu
  18. nec membris nec honore minor potuitque videri
  19. Pallas, si clipeum ferret, si spicula, Phoebe,
  20. collectae tereti nodantur iaspide vestes.