de raptu Proserpinae

Claudian

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

  1. in venas disperge meas et flamine largo
  2. rura fove. merear divino pollice carpi
  3. et nostris cupiant ornari numina sertis.”
  4. Dixerat ; ille novo madidantes nectare pennas
  5. concutit et glaebas fecundo rore maritat,
  6. quaque volat vernus sequitur rubor ; omnis in herbas
  7. turget humus medioque patent convexa sereno.
  8. sanguineo splendore rosas, vaccinia nigro