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EDITED BY
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CAPPS,
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POST,
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THE LOEB CLASSICAL LIBRARY FOUNDED BY JAMES LOEB,
LL.D.
EDITED BY
fT. E. PAGE, t E.
CAPPS,
L. A.
POST,
PH.D., LL.D. L.H.D.
E. H.
C.H., LITT.D.
t
W. H.
WARMINGTON,
D.
ROUSE,
SILIUS ITALICUS II
litt.d.
m.a., f.r.hist.soo.
i SILIUS ITALICUS PUNICA WITH AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION BY J. RI.A.,
D.
DUFF
HON.D.LITT.
DURHAM
FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDCK
IN
TWO VOLUMES II
LONDON
WILLIAM HEINEMANN LTD CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS
HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS MCMLXI
First printed 1934 Reprinted 1938, 1950. 1961
Printed in Great Britain
CONTENTS OF VOLUME
II PAGE
Book
IX
2
Book
X
50
Book
XI
100
Book
XII
H6
Book XIII
204
Book XIV
272
Book
XV
324
Book
XVI
386
Book XVII
4.38
Index
489
.......
SILIUS
ITALICUS
BOOKS IX-XVII
VOL.
II
a2
PUNICORUM LIBER NONUS ARGUMENT Varro is eager to fight, and his boldness is increased by a Paulus tries in vain to restrain his successful skirmish. horrible crime committed in ignorance colleague (1-65).
A
Turbato monstris Latio cladisque futurae signa per Ausoniam prodentibus irrita divis,
haud secus ac si fausta forent et prospera pugnae omina venturae, consul traducere noctem exsomnis telumque manu vibrare per umbras, ac modo segnitie Paulum increpitare, modo acres
5
exercere tubas nocturnaque classica velle. nee minor in Poeno properi certaminis ardor, erumpunt vallo, fortuna urgente sinistra, consertaeque manus nam sparsi ad pabula campis vicinis raptanda Macae fudere volucrem 11 telorum nubem. ante omnes invadere bella Mancinus gaudens hostilique unguere primus ;
tela cruore cadit
;
cadit et
numerosa inventus,
nee pecudum fibras Varro et contraria Paulo auspicia incusante deum compesceret arma,
;
;
;
'^
•
Etruria
:
see note to
vii.
29.
58
:
SILIUS ITALICUS Hannibalem lus trans, Paulus sors una videtur aspera, si occumbat ductore superstite Poeno. Quam metuens molem (neque enim, certamine :
sumpto, tempestas tanta et rabies impune fuisset) in faciem pavidi luno conversa Metelli '* quid vanos," inquit, ** Latio spes unica consul, incassumque moves, fato renuente, furores ? si superest Paulus, restant Aeneia regna ;
45
50
Ausoniam tecum trahis. ire tumentem tu contra iuvenem et caput hoc abscidere rebus turbatis, o Paule, paras ? nunc Hannibal ipsi sin seeus,
(tam laetus bello est) ausit certare Tonanti. 65 et iam conversis (vidi nam flectere) habenis evasit Varro ac sese ad meliora reservat. sit spatium fatis et, dum datur, eripe leto banc nostris maiorem animam mox bella capesses." Ad quae suspirans ductor " mortemne sub armis cur poscam, causa ista parum est, quod talia nostrae pertulerunt aures suadentem monstra Metellum ? 61 i, demens, i, carpe fugam. non hostica tela ;
;
:
excipias tergo, superos precor integer, oro, intactusque abeas atque intres moenia Romae :
cum Varrone
me
simul.
talin',
pavidissime,
dignum
65
indignum morte putasti ? quippe furit Poenus, qui nunc contraria bella ipsi ferre lovi valeat. pro degener altae virtutis patrum quando certamen inire, vita pulchraque
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