Quid si peteretur crimine tanto limes uterque poli, quem So… - Publius Papinius Statius

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Quid si peteretur crimine tanto
limes uterque poli, quem Sol emissus Eoo
cardine, quem porta vergens prospectat Hibera,
quasque procul terras obliquo sidere tangit
avius aut Borea gelidas madidive tepentes
igne Noti?

Publius Papinius Statius

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Publius Papinius Statius (c. 45 – c. 96) was a Roman poet of the Silver Age of Latin literature.

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Native Name: Statius

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Virgil Gaius Valerius Flaccus Silius Italicus Lucan Horace

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Ac velut hiberno deprensus navita ponto,
cui neque Temo piger neque amico sidere monstrat
Luna vias, medio caeli pelagique tumultu
stat rationis inops, jam jamque aut saxa malignis
expectat summersa vadis aut vertice acuto
spumantes scopulos erectae incurrere prorae.

Adrastus is amazed thereat and slow to believe.

Vive, precor; nec tu divinam Aeneida tempta,
sed longe sequere et vestigia semper adora.

Quid si peteretur crimine tanto limes uterque poli, quem Sol emissus Eoo cardine, quem porta vergens prospectat Hibera, quasque procul terras obliquo… - Publius Papinius Statius

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