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. At tu seu membris emissus in ardua tendens
  2. fulgentesque plagas rerumque elementa recenses,
  3. quis deus, unde ignes, quae ducat semita solem,
  4. quae minuat Phoeben quaeque integrare latentem
  5. causa queat, notique modos extendis Arati,
  6. seu tu Lethaei secreto in gramine campi
  7. concilia heroum iuxta manesque beatos.
  8. Maeonium Ascraeumque senem, non segnior umbra
  9. accolis alternumque sonas et carmina misces:
  10. da vocem magno, pater, ingeniumque dolori,
  11. nam me ter relegens caelo [*]() terque ora retexens
  12. Luna videt residem nullaque Heliconide tristes
  13. solantem curas; tuus ut mihi vultibus ignis
  14. inrubuit cineremque oculis umentibus hausi,
  15. vilis honos studiis, vix haec in munera solvo
  16. primum animum, tacitisque situm depellere curis [*]()
    17. [*](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. )
  17. nunc etiam labente manu nec lumine sicco
  18. ordior adclinis tumulo, quo molle quiescis
  19. iugera nostra tenens, ubi post Aeneia fata
  20. stellatus Latiis ingessit montibus Albam