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