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. Glaucia 2—insontes animas nec portitor arcet
  2. nec durae comes ille ferae—: tu pectora mulce,
    3. [*](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. )
  3. tu prohibe manare genas noctesque beatas
  4. dulcibus alloquiis et vivis vultibus imple,
  5. et periisse nega. desolatamque sororem,