Panegyricus de tertio consulatu Honorii Augusti

Claudian

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

  1. turbidus et grato respersus pulvere belli,
  2. armaque gaviso referat captiva parenti.”
  3. Mox ubi firmasti recto vestigia gressu,
  4. non tibi desidias molles nec marcida luxu
  5. otia nec somnos genitor permisit inertes,
  6. sed nova per duros instruxit membra labores
  7. et cruda teneras exercuit indole vires:
  8. frigora saeva pati, gravibus non cedere nimbis,
  9. aestivum tolerare iubar, transnare sonoras
  10. torrentum furias, ascensu vincere montes,
    11. v.1.p.274
  11. planitiem cursu, valles et concava saltu,
  12. nec non in clipeo vigiles producere noctes,
  13. in galea potare nives, nunc spicula cornu
  14. tendere, nunc glandes Baleari spargere funda.
  15. quoque magis nimium pugnae inflammaret amorem,
  16. facta tui numerabat avi, quem litus adustae
  17. horrescit Libyae ratibusque impervia Thule:
  18. ille leves Mauros nec falso nomine Pictos