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. qui magnum Aenean Laurentibus intulit arvis,
  2. Alcinoique dapes mansuro carmine monstrat,
  3. aequore qui multo reducem consumpsit Ulixem:
  4. ast ego. cui sacrae Caesar nova gaudia cenae
  5. nunc primum dominoque dedit consurgere mensa,
  6. qua celebrem mea vota lyra. quas solvere grates
  7. sufficiam? non, si pariter mihi vertice Iacto
  8. nectat odoratas et Smyrna et Mantua lauros,
  9. digna loquar, mediis videor discumbere in astris
    10. [*](dux Markland: rex M. triumphs that he might have celebrated, cf. iv. 3. 159. the title of Germanicus, and later on. probably in 86, had the months September and October called Germanicus and Domitianus (Suet. Dom. 13). )
  10. cum Iove et Iliaca porrectum sumere dextra
  11. immortale merum! steriles transmisimus annos:
  12. haec aevi mihi prima dies, hic limina vitae,