de raptu Proserpinae

Claudian

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

  1. iam neque Partheniis innectere retia lustris
  2. nec pharetram gestare libet : securus ubique
  3. spumet aper saevique fremant impune leones.
  4. te iuga Taygeti, posito te Maenala flebunt
  5. venatu maestoque diu lugebere Cyntho.
  6. Delphica quin etiam fratris delubra tacebunt.”
  7. Interea volucri fertur Proserpina curru
  8. caesariem diffusa Noto planctuque lacertos
  9. verberat et questus ad nubila tendit inanes :
  10. “Cur non torsisti manibus fabricata Cyclopum
  11. in nos tela, pater ? sic me crudelibus umbris
  12. tradere, sic toto placuit depellere mundo ?