Ex Ponto

Ovid

Ovid: Tristia. Ponto. Wheeler, Arthur Leslie, editor. Cambridge, MA; London, UK: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann Ltd., 1939 (printing).

  1. hic tenuit Mysas gentes in pace fideli,
  2. hic arcu fisos terruit ense Getas,
  3. hic raptam Troesmin [*](troesenen etc corr Korn) celeri virtute recepit,
  4. infecitque fero sanguine Danuvium.
  5. quaere loci faciem Scythicique incommoda caeli,
  6. et quam vicino terrear hoste roga:
  7. sintne litae tenues serpentis felle sagittae,
  8. fiat an humanum victima dira caput .
  9. mentiar, an coeat duratus frigore Pontus,
  10. et teneat glacies iugera multa freti,