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. ipsa sinus accincta Ceres Bacchusque laborat
    2. [*](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. )
  2. sufficere, aetherii felix sic orbita fluxit
  3. Triptolemi; sic vitifero [*]() sub palmite nudos
  4. umbravit colles et sobria rura Lyaeus.
  5. Sed mihi non epulas Indisque innixa columnis
  6. robora Maurorum famulasque ex ordine turmas,
  7. ipsum, ipsum cupido tantum spectare vaeavit
  8. tranquillam vultus et maiestate serena
  9. mulcentem radios summittentemque modeste
  10. fortunae vexilla suae; tamen ore nitebat
  11. dissimulatus honos, talem quoque barbarus hostis
  12. posset et ignotae conspectum agnoscere gentes.
  13. non aliter gelida Rhodopes in valle recumbit
  14. dimissis Gradivus equis; sic lubrica ponit
  15. membra Therapnaea resolutus gymnade Pollux,
  16. sic iacet ad Gangen Indis ululantibus Euhan,
  17. sic gravis Alcides post horrida iussa reversus
  18. gaudebat strato latus adclinare leoni,
  19. parva loquor necdum aequo tuos, Germanice, vultus:
  20. talis, ubi Oceani finem mensasque revisit