In Eutropium

Claudian

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

  1. quis magis enodes laterum detorqueat arcus,1
  2. quis voci digitos, oculos quis moribus aptet?
  3. hi tragicos meminere modos; his fabula Tereus,
  4. his necdum commissa choro cantatur Agave.
  5. Increpat Eutropius: non haec spectacula tempus
  6. poscere; nunc alias armorum incumbere curas;
  7. se satis Armenio fessum pro limite cingi
    8. v.1.p.212
  8. nec tantis unum subsistere posse periclis;
  9. ignoscant senio, iuvenes ad proelia mittant; —
  10. qualis pauperibus nutrix invisa puellis
  11. adsidet et tela communem quaerere victum