de raptu Proserpinae

Claudian

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

  1. concutit et glaebas fecundo rore maritat,
  2. quaque volat vernus sequitur rubor ; omnis in herbas
  3. turget humus medioque patent convexa sereno.
  4. sanguineo splendore rosas, vaccinia nigro
  5. imbuit et dulci violas ferrugine pingit.
  6. Parthica quae tantis variantur cingula gemmis
  7. regales vinctura sinus ? quae vellera tantum
  8. ditibus Assyrii spumis fucantur aeni ?
  9. non tales volucer pandit Iunonius alas,
  10. nec sic innumeros arcu mutante colores
  11. incipiens redimitur hiems, cum tramite flexo
  12. semita discretis interviret umida nimbis.
  13. Forma loci superat flores : curvata tumore
  14. parvo planities et mollibus edita clivis
  15. creverat in collem ; vivo de pumice fontes
    16. v.2.p.326
  16. roscida mobilibus lambebant gramina rivis,
  17. silvaque torrentes ramorum frigore soles
  18. temperat et medio brumam sibi vindicat aestu :
  19. apta fretis abies, bellis accommoda cornus,
  20. quercus amica Iovi, tumulos tectura cupressus,