Gaius Valerius Flaccus Quotes

At Iuno et summi virgo Iovis intima secum
consilia et varias sociabant pectore curas.

Blandos que Iovis quae luserat ignes
caelicolis immota procis: deceptus amatae
fraude deae nec solus Halys nec solus Apollo.

Percutit ore lyram nomenque relinquit harenis.

Their words were spoken to the breezes nor swayed appointed fate.

Dicta dabant ventis nec debita fata movebant.

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

Haud temere est, fato divum reor ad mea vectos
litora vos.

Hereupon Juno and Pallas leap sheer down from the sky upon the rocks; this one the daughter of Jove, that one his spouse constrains.

Hic Iuno praecepsque ex aethere Pallas
insiliunt pariter scopulos: hunc nata coercet,
hunc coniunx Iovis.

Illa volans tenui per concita saxa
luce fugit.

Effluit imber
spumeus et magno puppem procul aequore vestit.

Unda laborantes praeceps rotat.

They ravage and sweep away my banquet, and befoul and upset the cups, there is a violent stench and a sorry battle arises, for the monsters are as famished as I. What all have scorned or polluted with their touch, or what has fallen from their filthy claws, helps me to linger thus among the living.

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.

Fallere quas nusquam misero locus.