Where still the branches guarded the skin of ruddy hue, lik… - Gaius Valerius Flaccus

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Where still the branches guarded the skin of ruddy hue, like to illumined cloud or to Iris when she ungirds her robe and glides to meet glowing Phoebus.

Gaius Valerius Flaccus

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Gaius Valerius Flaccus (Setinus Balbus) (died c. AD 90) was a Roman poet of the Silver Age.

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Alternative Names: Valerius Flaccus • Gaius Valerius Flaccus Setinus Balbus

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Vates Phoebo dilecta Polyxo.

Respexit que fores et adhuc invenit euntem,
visus et heu miserae tunc pulchrior hospes amanti
discedens; tales umeros, ea terga relinquit.

[Medea] looked toward the gates and found him still even as he went; and alas! as he departed still comelier seemed the stranger to the lovelorn girl: such shoulders, such frame doth he leave to her remembrance.

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