Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, Phaedra

lascivae nemorum deae

the wanton goddesses of the groves,

Panas quae Dryades montivagos petunt,

the Dryads who pursue the mountain-roaming Pans;

aut te stellifero despiciens polo

or, looking down on you from the star-bearing sky,

sidus post veteres Arcadas editum

the star born after the ancient Arcadians

currus non poterit flectere candidos.

will not be able to guide her white chariot.

et nuper rubuit, nullaque lucidis

Lately, too, she reddened, though no dingy

nubes sordidior vultibus obstitit:

cloud stood in the way of her bright face;

at nos solliciti numine turbido,

but we, troubled by the darkened goddess,

tractari! Thessalicis carminibus rati,

thinking she was being dragged down by Thessalian spells,

tinnitus dedimus: tu fueras labor

raised a clanging: you had been the trouble,

et tu causa morae, te dea noctium

you the cause of delay; while the goddess of nights

dum spectat celeres sustinuit vias.

gazes at you, she has held back her swift course.

Vexent hanc faciem frigora parcius,

May the cold harass this face more sparingly,

haec solem facies rarius appetat:

may this face seek the sun more rarely: