Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii Augusti

Claudian

Claudian, Volume 1. Platnauer, Maurice, editor. Harvard University Press: Cambridge, MA; London, England, 1922.

  1. gaudia nec leges pudeat ridere severas.
  2. Tu festas, Hymenaee, faces, tu, Gratia, flores
  3. elige, tu geminas, Concordia, necte coronas,
  4. vos, pennata cohors, quocumque vocaverit usus,
  5. divisa properate manu, neu marceat ulla
  6. segnities: alii funalibus ordine ductis
  7. plurima venturae suspendite lumina nocti;
  8. hi nostra nitidos postes obducere myrto
  9. contendant; pars nectareis adspergite tecta
  10. fontibus et flamma lucos adolete Sabaeos;
  11. pars infecta croco velamina lutea Serum
  12. pandite Sidoniasque solo prosternite vestes.
  13. ast alii thalamum docto componite textu;
  14. stamine gemmato picturatisque columnis
    15. v.1.p.258
  15. aedificetur apex, qualem non Lydia dives
  16. erexit Pelopi nec quem struxere Lyaeo
  17. Indorum spoliis et opaco palmite Bacchae.
  18. illic exuvias omnes cumulate parentum:
  19. quidquid avus senior Mauro vel Saxone victis,
  20. quidquid ab innumeris socio Stilichone tremendus