Thebais

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. qui ripas, Lyrcie, tuas. tua litora multo
  2. vomere suspendunt, fluviorum ductor Achivum,
  3. Inache—Persea neque enim violentior exit
  4. amnis humo, cum Taurum aut Pleiadas hausit aquosas
    5. [*](fraudaverit P: siccaverit ω. turned them into guinea-fowl, hence called meleagrides. name who was a son of Zeus. The Ida referred to is the mountain in Crete, which boasted of having given birth to Zeus. )
    v.1.p.516
  5. spumeus et genero tumuit Iove—quos celer ambit
  6. Asterion Dryopumque trahens Erasinus aristas,
  7. et qui rura domant Epidauria—dexter Iaccho
  8. collis, at Hennaeae Cereri negat—; avia Dyme
  9. mittit opem densasque Pylos Neleia turmas;
  10. nondum nota Pylos iuvenisque aetate secunda
  11. Nestor, et ire tamen peritura in castra negavit,
  12. hos agitat pulchraeque docet virtutis amorem
  13. arduus Hippomedon; capiti tremit aerea cassis
  14. ter niveum scandente [*]() iuba, latus omne sub armis
  15. ferrea suta terunt, umeros ac pectora late
  16. flammeus orbis habet, perfectaque vivit in auro
  17. nox Danai: sontes Furiarum lampade nigra
  18. quinquaginta ardent thalami; pater ipse cruentis
  19. in foribus laudatque nefas atque inspicit enses.
  20. illum Palladia sonipes Nemeaeus ab arce