Ex Ponto

Ovid

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

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