de raptu Proserpinae

Claudian

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

  1. remigio ; stagni patiens aptanda carinae.
  2. Tollebant geminae capita inviolata cupressus
  3. caespite vicino : quales non rupibus Idae
  4. miratur Simois, quales non divite ripa
  5. lambit Apollinei nemoris nutritor Orontes.
  6. germanas adeo credas ; sic frontibus aequis
  7. adstant et socio despectant vertice lucum.
  8. hae placuere faces, pernix invadit utramque
  9. cincta sinus, exerta manus, armata bipenni
  10. alternasque ferit totisque obnixa trementes
  11. viribus impellit. pariter traxere ruinam
  12. et pariter posuere comas campoque recumbunt,
  13. Faunorum Dryadumque dolor, complectitur ambas,
  14. sicut erant, alteque levat retroque solutis
  15. crinibus ascendit fastigia montis anheli
  16. exuperatque aestus et nulli pervia saxa
  17. atque indignantes vestigia calcat harenas :
  18. qualis pestiferas animare ad crimina taxos
  19. torva Megaera ruit, Cadmi seu moenia poscat
  20. sive Thyesteis properet saevire Mycenis :