de raptu Proserpinae

Claudian

Claudian, Volume 2. Platnauer, Maurice, editor. Harvard University Press: Cambridge, MA; London, England, 1922.

  1. praestantes olim pueros : tu natus Amyclis,
  2. hunc Helicon genuit ; disci te perculit error,
  3. hunc fontis decepit amor ; te fronte retusa
  4. Delius, hunc fracta Cephisus harundine luget.
  5. Aestuat ante alias avido fervore legendi
  6. frugiferae spes una deae : nunc vimine texto
  7. ridentes calathos spoliis agrestibus implet ;
  8. nunc sociat flores seseque ignara coronat,
  9. augurium fatale tori, quin ipsa tubarum
  10. armorumque potens dextram, qua fortia turbat
  11. agmina, qua stabiles portas et moenia vellit,
  12. iam levibus laxat studiis hastamque reponit