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. scilicet exhausti Lachesis mihi tempora fati
    2. [*](corde M: cordi Dom. )[*](dolebas Dom.: doleres M: dolere Krohn. in music and poetry, at one of which Statius was victorious. It was a great disappointment that he failed at )
  2. te tantum miserata dedit, superique potentes
  3. invidiam timuere tuam. post ista propinquum
  4. nunc iter optandosque sinus comes ire moraris?
  5. heu ubi nota fides totque explorata per usus,
  6. qua veteres Latias Graias heroidas aequas?
  7. isset ad Iliacas—quid enim deferret amantes?—
  8. Penelope gavisa domos, si passus Ulixes:
  9. questa est Aegiale, questa est Meliboea relinqui,
  10. et quam—quam saevi!—[*]() fecerunt maenada planctus.
  11. nec minor his tu nosse Iidem vitamque maritis
  12. dedere, sic certe cineres umbramque priorem
  13. quaeris adhuc, sic exsequias amplexa canori
  14. coniugis ingentes iterasti pectore planctus,
  15. iam mea. nec pietas alia est tibi curaque natae,
  16. sic et mater amas, sic numquam corde recedit
  17. nata tuo, fixamque animi penetralibus imis
  18. nocte dieque tenes, non sic Trachinia [*]() nidos
  19. Alcyone, vernos non sic Philomela penates
  20. circuit amplectens animamque in pignora transfert.