Statius, P. Papinius (Publius Papinius), Achilleis
English for the 1 passage of this work that the Atlas of Ancient Myth, Magic in the Ancient Texts and a study of demons and angels quote or cite, and which the library holds in no published English. The numbers are the edition's own references.
1.267–1.271
1.267
lustra tibi: per ego hoc decus et ventura iuventae
haunts to you. By this beauty I [beg you], and by the coming joys
1.268
gaudia, si terras humilemque experta maritum
of youth: if I have endured the earth and a lowly husband
1.269
te propter, si progenitum Stygos amne severo
for your sake, if, when you were born, in Styx's stern stream
1.270
armavi — totumque utinam! — , cape tuta parumper
I armed you (and would it had been wholly!), take for a little while these safe
1.271
tegmina nil nocitura animo, cur ora reducis
garments, which will do your spirit no harm. Why do you turn away your face?