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
    9. v.2.p.322
  9. fecerat et pariter, forma sed dispare, Lunam,
  10. aurorae noctisque duces ; cunabula Tethys
  11. praebet et infantes gremio solatur anhelos
  12. caeruleusque sinus roseis radiatur alumnis.