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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. valle carens. pulsum solito quem gramine vietor
  2. iussit ab erepta longe mugire iuvenca,
  3. cum profugo placuere tori cervixque recepto
  4. sanguine magna redit fractaeque in pectora quercus,[*]()
  5. bella cupit pastusque et capta armenta reposcit
  6. iam pede, iam cornu melior—pavet ipse reversum
  7. victor, et attoniti vix agnovere magistri—:
  8. non alias tacita iuvenis Teumesius iras
  9. mente acuit, sed fida vias arcanaque coniunx
  10. senserat; utque toris primo complexa iacebat
  11. aurorae pallore virum, ‘quos, callide, motus
  12. quamve fugam moliris?’ ait ‘nil transit amantes.
  13. sentio, pervigiles acuunt suspiria questus,
  14. numquam in pace sopor, quotiens haec ora natare
  15. fletibus et magnas latrantia [*]() pectora curas
    16. [*](in pectora quercus PB (with vires written over): in pectore ω, vires DKS. vires Q (with quercus written over). )[*](latrantia PES: iactantia ω. )
    v.1.p.420
  16. admota deprendo manu? nil foedere rupto
  17. conubiisve super moveor viduaque iuventa,
  18. etsi crudus amor necdum post flammea toti
  19. intepuere tori: tua me, properabo fateri.
  20. angit, [*]() amate, [*]() salus, tune incomitatus, inermis