Fasti

Ovid

Ovid. Ovid's Fasti. Frazer, James George, Sir, editor. Cambridge, MA; London, UK: Harvard University Press, William Heinemann, Ltd., 1931.

  1. ara fit: huc ignem curto fert rustica testu
  2. sumptum de tepidis ipsa colona focis,
  3. ligna senex minuit concisaque construit arte
  4. et solida ramos figere pugnat humo:
  5. tum sicco primas inritat cortice flammas,
  6. stat puer et manibus lata canistra tenet.
  7. inde ubi ter fruges medios immisit in ignis,
  8. porrigit incisos filia parva favos,
  9. vina tenent alii; libantur singula flammis;
  10. spectant, et linguis candida turba favet.
  11. spargitur et caeso communis Terminus agno
  12. nec queritur, lactans cum sibi porca datur,
  13. conveniunt celebrantque dapes vicinia simplex
  14. et cantant laudes, Termine sancte, tuas:
  15. tu populos urbesque et regna ingentia finis:
  16. omnis erit sine te litigiosus ager.
  17. nulla tibi ambitio est, nullo corrumperis auro,
  18. legitima servas credita rura fide.
  19. si tu signasses olim Thyreatida terram,
  20. corpora non leto missa trecenta forent,