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. temperet? en etiam donat praebetque necandos
  2. tot nostra de gente viros, huic tradita virtus,
  3. huic furor? agrestes superest tibi figere dammas.’
  4. desiluit iustis commotus in arma querellis
  5. Bellipotens, cui sola vagum per inane ruenti
  6. Ira comes, reliqui sudant ad bella Furores,
  7. nec mora, cum maestam monitu Letoida duro
  8. increpat adsistens: ‘non haec tibi proelia divum
  9. dat pater; armiferum ni protinus improba campum
  10. deseris, huic aequam nosces nec Pallada dextrae.’
  11. quid faciat contra? premit hinc Mavortia cuspis,
  12. hinc plenae tibi, parve, colus, Iovis inde severi
  13. vultus: abit solo post haec evicta pudore.
    14. v.2.p.314
  14. At pater Ogygias Mavors circumspicit alas
  15. horrendumque Dryanta movet, cui sanguinis auctor
  16. turbidus Orion, comitesque odisse Dianae (
  17. inde furit) patrium, hic [*]() turbatos arripit ense
  18. Arcadas exarmatque ducem; cadit agmine longo
  19. Cyllenes populus Tegeesque habitator opacae,
  20. Aepytiique duces Telphusiacaeque phalanges,