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. fulta caput cithara, qualis post Orphea raptum
  2. astitit, Hebre, tibi, cernens iam surda ferarum
  3. agmina et immotos sublato carmine lucos.
  4. At tu seu membris emissus in ardua tendens
  5. fulgentesque plagas rerumque elementa recenses,
  6. quis deus, unde ignes, quae ducat semita solem,
  7. quae minuat Phoeben quaeque integrare latentem
  8. causa queat, notique modos extendis Arati,
  9. seu tu Lethaei secreto in gramine campi
  10. concilia heroum iuxta manesque beatos.
  11. Maeonium Ascraeumque senem, non segnior umbra
  12. accolis alternumque sonas et carmina misces:
  13. da vocem magno, pater, ingeniumque dolori,
  14. nam me ter relegens caelo [*]() terque ora retexens
  15. Luna videt residem nullaque Heliconide tristes
  16. solantem curas; tuus ut mihi vultibus ignis
  17. inrubuit cineremque oculis umentibus hausi,
  18. vilis honos studiis, vix haec in munera solvo
  19. primum animum, tacitisque situm depellere curis [*]()
    20. [*](caelo M: caelum Heinsius. )[*](tacitis curis M: tactis chordis Polster. poem was written three months after his father's death; still in any case he must have kept it by him for a long while before publishing it—if indeed the publication was not posthumous. )
  20. nunc etiam labente manu nec lumine sicco