Gaius Valerius Flaccus Quotes

But Medea in her chamber, trembling and terror-struck now at what she has done, is encompassed by all her father's threatening rage.

Unda laborantes praeceps rotat.

Melior vulgi nam saepe voluntas.

Dicta dabant ventis nec debita fata movebant.

The other, his brow heavy with threats, had long been muttering and smouldering with hidden fire.

Not by hazard are ye come; divine fate, I ween, hath brought you to my shores.

Iamque altae cecidere iubae nutatque coactum
iam caput atque ingens extra sua vellera cervix
ceu refluens Padus aut septem proiectus in amnes
Nilus et Hesperium veniens Alpheos in orbem.

Phoebeius Idmon, ... cui genitor tribuit monitu praenoscere divum
omina, seu flammas seu lubrica comminus exta
seu plenum certis interroget aera pinnis.

Then the Father from his starry citadel beholding these glorious deeds of the Greeks and how the mighty work went forward, is glad.

And now the high crest sinks, now the head is nodding overpowered and the huge neck has slipped from around the fleece it guarded, like refluent Po or Nile that sprawls in seven streams or Alpheus when his waters enter the Hesperian world.

Absyrtus subita praeceps cum classe parentis
advehitur profugis infestam lampada Grais
concutiens.

Nullus adempti
regis amor: montem celeres silvamque capessunt.

Nox simul astriferas profert optabilis umbras.

Diripiunt verruntque dapes foedataque turbant
pocula, saevit odor surgitque miserrima pugna
parque mihi monstrisque fames. sprevere quod omnes
pollueruntque manu quodque unguibus excidit atris
has mihi fert in luce moras.

Stagna vaga sic luce micant ubi Cynthia caelo
prospicit aut medii transit rota candida Phoebi,
tale iubar diffundit aquis: nil umbra comaeque
turbavitque sonus surgentis ad oscula nymphae.
illa avidas iniecta manus heu sera cientem
auxilia et magni referentem nomen amici
detrahit, adiutae prono nam pondere vires.