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Statius, P. Papinius (Publius Papinius)

Statius, P. Papinius. Statius, Volumes 1-2. Mozley, John Henry, editor. London: William Heinemann; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1928.

  1. Somne, iubet populumque trucis defigere Cadmi,
  2. qui nunc eventu belli tumefactus Achaeum
  3. pervigil adservat vallum et tua iura recusat,
  4. da precibus tantis, rara est hoc posse facultas
  5. placatumque Iovem dextra Iunone mereri.’[*]()
    6. [*](Lines 100-5 only in P and some late MSS.)[*](cernitur, hae (haec Klotz) species, ipse autem Vollmer: cernitur haec species autem P: ipse autem vacuus curis ω.)[*](Lines 112-17 only in P, 112-15 in a us. of Corp. Christ. Coll. Oxford.)[*](tristia blandis edd.: numina flammis P (from 117), various conjectures by edd.)[*](mereri ω: vereri P: merere late MSS., Gronovius.)
    v.2.p.330
  6. dixit, et increpitans languentia pectora dextra,
  7. ne pereant voces, iterumque iterumque monebat,