In Eutropium

Claudian

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

  1. exangues onerante toga cinctuque gravatus
  2. indutoque senex obscaenior iret in auro:
  3. humani qualis simulator simius oris,
  4. quem puer adridens pretioso stamine Serum
  5. velavit nudasque nates ac terga reliquit,
  6. ludibrium mensis; erecto pectore dives
  7. ambulat et claro sese deformat amictu.
  8. candida pollutos comitatur curia fasces,
  9. forsitan et dominus. praebet miracula lictor
    10. v.1.p.162
  10. consule nobilior libertatemque daturus,
  11. quam necdum meruit, scandit sublime tribunal
  12. atque inter proprias laudes Aegyptia iactat
  13. somnia prostratosque canit se vate tyrannos.
  14. scilicet in dubio vindex Bellona pependit,
  15. dum spado Tiresias enervatusque Melampus
  16. reptat ab extreme referens oracula Nilo.
  17. Obstrepuere avium voces, exhorruit annus
  18. nomen, et insanum gemino proclamat ab ore
  19. eunuchumque vetat fastis accedere Ianus;
  20. sumeret inlicitos etenim si femina fasces,