Silvae

Statius, P. Papinius (Publius Papinius)

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

  1. Virgo iuvat Marsasque nives et frigora ducens
  2. Marcia, praecelsis quarum vaga molibus unda
  3. crescit et innumero pendens transmittitur arcu—:
  4. vestrum opus aggredimur, vestra est. quam carmine molli
  5. pando, domus, non umquam aliis habitastis in antris
  6. ditius. ipsa manus tenuit Cytherea mariti
  7. monstravitque artes: neu vilis flamina caminos
  8. ureret, ipsa faces volucrum succendit Amorum.
  9. non huc admissae Thasos aut undosa Carystos,
  10. maeret onyx longe, queriturque exclusus ophites:
  11. sola nitet flavis Nomadum decisa metallis
  12. purpura, sola cavo Phrygiae quam Synnados antro
  13. ipse cruentavit maculis lucentibus [*]() Attis,
  14. quasque Tyrus [*]() niveas secat et Sidonia rupes,
  15. vix locus Eurotae, viridis cum regula longo
    16. [*](lucentibus M: liventibus Pol., Markland: cf. Apoll. Sid. xxii. 137. )[*](quasque Tyrus Dom.: quoque tiri M: cumque Tyri Vollmer: quasque Tyrus niveas secuit Lafaye: quamque Paros niveam Postgate: quaeque Tyri vincas fucatam (or, fucum et quae) sindona rupes Stater. See also C.R. xx. pp. 38, 39. united herself indissolubly to him. Cebrenis is Oenone. Hylas, ward of Hercules, was drawn by a nymph into the spring where he was getting water. drinking respectively, from the purity of the one and the )
  16. Synnada distinctu variat, non limina cessant,
  17. effulgent camerae, vario fastigia vitro
  18. in species animosque nitent. stupet ipse beatas
  19. circumplexus opes et parcius imperat ignis.
  20. multus ubique dies, radiis ubi culmina totis