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
  9. imbuit et dulci violas ferrugine pingit.
  10. Parthica quae tantis variantur cingula gemmis
  11. regales vinctura sinus ? quae vellera tantum
  12. ditibus Assyrii spumis fucantur aeni ?