de raptu Proserpinae

Claudian

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

  1. non cadere Antaeo, non crescere profuit hydrae ;
  2. nec cervam volucres eripuere pedes.
  3. Caci flamma perit ; rubuit Busiride Nilus ;
  4. prostratis maduit nubigenis Pholoe.
    5. v.2.p.318
  5. te Libyci stupuere sinus, te maxima Tethys
  6. horruit, imposito cum premerere polo :
  7. firmior Herculea mundus cervice pependit ;
  8. lustrarunt umeros Phoebus et astra tuos.”
  9. Thracius haec vates. sed tu Tirynthius alter,
  10. Florentine, mihi : tu mea plectra moves
  11. antraque Musarum longo torpentia somno
  12. excutis et placidos ducis in orbe chores.