In Eutropium

Claudian

Claudian, Volume 1. Platnauer, Maurice, editor. Harvard University Press: Cambridge, MA; London, England, 1922.

  1. hic cocus, hic leno, defossi verbere terga,
  2. servitio, non arte pares, hic saepius emptus,
  3. alter ad Hispanos nutritus verna penates.
  4. Ergo ubi collecti proceres, qui rebus in artis
  5. consulerent tantisque darent solacia morbis,
  6. obliti subito Phrygiae bellisque relictis
  7. ad solitos coepere iocos et iurgia circi
  8. tendere. nequiquam magna confligitur ira,
  9. quis melius vibrata puer vertigine molli
  10. membra rotet, verrat quis marmora crine supino?
  11. quis magis enodes laterum detorqueat arcus,1
  12. quis voci digitos, oculos quis moribus aptet?
  13. hi tragicos meminere modos; his fabula Tereus,
  14. his necdum commissa choro cantatur Agave.
  15. Increpat Eutropius: non haec spectacula tempus
  16. poscere; nunc alias armorum incumbere curas;
  17. se satis Armenio fessum pro limite cingi
    18. v.1.p.212
  18. nec tantis unum subsistere posse periclis;