Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii Augusti

Claudian

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

  1. quaesivit genitor bellis, quodcumque Gelonus
  2. Armeniusve dedit; quantum crinita sagittis
  3. attulit extremo Meroe circumflua Nilo;
  4. misit Achaemenio quidquid de Tigride Medus,
  5. cum supplex emeret Romanam Parthia pacem.
  6. nobilibus gazis opibusque cubilia surgant
  7. barbaricis; omnes thalamo conferte triumphos.”
  8. Sic ait et sponsae petit improvisa penates.
  9. ilia autem secura tori taedasque parari
  10. nescia divinae fruitur sermone parentis
  11. maternosque bibit mores exemplaque discit
  12. prisca pudicitiae Latios nec volvere libros
  13. desinit aut Graios, ipsa genetrice magistra,
  14. Maeonius quaecumque senex aut Thracius Orpheus
  15. aut Mytilenaeo modulatur pectine Sappho
  16. (sic Triviam Latona monet; sic mitis in antro
  17. Mnemosyne docili tradit praecepta Thaliae):
  18. cum procul augeri nitor et iucundior aer
  19. attonitam lustrare domum fundique comarum
  20. gratus odor, mox vera fides numenque refulsit.