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. causa queat, notique modos extendis Arati,
  2. seu tu Lethaei secreto in gramine campi
  3. concilia heroum iuxta manesque beatos.
  4. Maeonium Ascraeumque senem, non segnior umbra
  5. accolis alternumque sonas et carmina misces:
  6. da vocem magno, pater, ingeniumque dolori,
  7. nam me ter relegens caelo [*]() terque ora retexens
  8. Luna videt residem nullaque Heliconide tristes
  9. solantem curas; tuus ut mihi vultibus ignis
  10. inrubuit cineremque oculis umentibus hausi,
  11. vilis honos studiis, vix haec in munera solvo
  12. primum animum, tacitisque situm depellere curis [*]()
    13. [*](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. )
  13. nunc etiam labente manu nec lumine sicco
  14. ordior adclinis tumulo, quo molle quiescis
  15. iugera nostra tenens, ubi post Aeneia fata
  16. stellatus Latiis ingessit montibus Albam
  17. Ascanius, Phrygio dum pingues sanguine campos
  18. odit et infaustae regnum dotale novercae.
  19. hic ego te—nam Sicanii non mitius halat
  20. aura croci, dites nec si tibi rara Sabaei