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. nam me ter relegens caelo [*]() terque ora retexens
  2. Luna videt residem nullaque Heliconide tristes
  3. solantem curas; tuus ut mihi vultibus ignis
  4. inrubuit cineremque oculis umentibus hausi,
  5. vilis honos studiis, vix haec in munera solvo
  6. primum animum, tacitisque situm depellere curis [*]()
    7. [*](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. )
  7. nunc etiam labente manu nec lumine sicco
  8. ordior adclinis tumulo, quo molle quiescis
  9. iugera nostra tenens, ubi post Aeneia fata
  10. stellatus Latiis ingessit montibus Albam
  11. Ascanius, Phrygio dum pingues sanguine campos
  12. odit et infaustae regnum dotale novercae.
  13. hic ego te—nam Sicanii non mitius halat
  14. aura croci, dites nec si tibi rara Sabaei
  15. cinnama, odoratas nec Arabs decerpsit aristas—
  16. inferiis cumulande sacris, te [*]() carmine plango
  17. Pierio; sume o gemitus et vulnera nati
  18. et lacrimas, rari quas umquam habuere parentes.
  19. atque utinam fortuna mihi, dare manibus aras,
  20. par templis opus, aeriamque educere molem,
  21. Cyclopum scopulos ultra atque audacia saxa
  22. Pyramidum, et magno tumulum praetexere luco!
  23. illic et Siculi superassem dona sepulcri
  24. et Nemees lucum et Pelopis solemnia trunci.
  25. illic Oebalio non finderet aera disco