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. liberior campo [*]() multumque amplexus operti
  2. aetheros et tantum domino minor: ille penates
  3. implet et ingenti genio iuvat, aemulus illic
  4. mons Libys Iliacusque nitens et [*]() multa Syene
  5. et Chios et glaucae certantia Doridi saxa
  6. Lunaque portandis tantum suffecta columnis.
  7. longa supra species: fessis vix culmina prendas
  8. visibus auratique putes laquearia caeli.
  9. hic eum Romuleos proceres trabeataque Caesar
  10. agmina mille simul iussit discumbere mensis,
  11. ipsa sinus accincta Ceres Bacchusque laborat
    12. [*](nec magnum properes escendere caelum Gronovivs: excedere M: ne in m. pr. excedere c. Lundstroem. )[*](campo Pol.: campi M. )[*](Iliacusque nitens et. I hare filled the lacuna of the MSS. thus: Iliacusque nitet multa M, Nilaea Syene Slater, cumulata conj. Phillimore; others in various ways. magnum caelum. i.e. Olympus (22). Some edd. take nec properes " as " do not hasten. )
  12. sufficere, aetherii felix sic orbita fluxit
  13. Triptolemi; sic vitifero [*]() sub palmite nudos
  14. umbravit colles et sobria rura Lyaeus.
  15. Sed mihi non epulas Indisque innixa columnis
  16. robora Maurorum famulasque ex ordine turmas,
  17. ipsum, ipsum cupido tantum spectare vaeavit
  18. tranquillam vultus et maiestate serena
  19. mulcentem radios summittentemque modeste
  20. fortunae vexilla suae; tamen ore nitebat