de raptu Proserpinae

Claudian

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

  1. mox dolor, aequali tendit per gramina passu
  2. nec membris nec honore minor potuitque videri
  3. Pallas, si clipeum ferret, si spicula, Phoebe,
  4. collectae tereti nodantur iaspide vestes.
  5. pectinis ingenio numquam felicior artis
  6. contigit eventus ; nulli sic consona telae
  7. fila nec in tantum veri duxere figuras.
  8. hic Hyperionio Solem de semine nasci