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. exitus, incertum, quibus instet fulmen ab astris,
  2. quae nubes fatale sonet, nil flecteris istis?
  3. sed flectere libens, ades huc emissus ab atro
  4. limine, cui soli cuncta impetrare facultas.
  5. Glaucia 2—insontes animas nec portitor arcet
  6. nec durae comes ille ferae—: tu pectora mulce,
    7. [*](meruitve M: renuitve Heinsius. )[*](Glaucia M: Glaucia si Macnaghten. Glaucia nam s. = Hydra, as in Virg. Aen. vi. 287: Vollmer makes Cerberus the beast, and the comrade a figure found on a wall-painting by the side of Cerberus, and described Lucan, Phars. vi. 702; cf. Sil. It. Pun. xiii. 587. )
  7. tu prohibe manare genas noctesque beatas
  8. dulcibus alloquiis et vivis vultibus imple,
  9. et periisse nega. desolatamque sororem,
  10. qui potes, et miseros perge insinuare parentes.
  1. Est inter notos Sirenum nomine muros
  2. saxaque Tyrrhenae templis onerata Minervae
  3. celsa Dicarchei speculatrix villa profundi,
  4. qua Bromio dilectus ager. collesque per altos
  5. uritur et prelis non invidet uva Falernis.