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. si laudanda precor, taedas auferte comasque
  2. Eumenidum; nullo sonet asper ianitor ore,
  3. Centauros Hydraeque greges Scyllaeaque monstra
  4. aversae celent valles, umbramque senilem
  5. invitet ripis, discussa plebe, supremus
  6. vector et in media componat molliter alga.
  7. ite, pii manes Graiumque examina vatum,
  8. inlustremque animam Lethaeis spargite sertis
  9. et monstrate nemus, quo nulla inrupit Erinys.
  10. in quo falsa dies caeloque simillimus aer.
  11. inde tamen venias, melior qua porta malignum
  12. cornea vincit ebur, somnique in imagine monstra,
    13. [*](si lux Heinsius: silua M: sic lux Vollmer. Lacuna before this line acc. to Postgate. )[*](Ennaeaque Gronovius: aecneaque D: Aetnaeaque Pol. the darkness of the night when the Greeks took Troy; he embraced his phantom in the underworld. )
  13. quae solitus, sic sacra Numae ritusque colendos
  14. mitis Aricino dictabat nympha sub antro,