Ille et nefasto te posuit die, &c. Lib. ii. 13.
{hellenisti.}
{Hora se keinos theken apophradi
Ho protos hostis cheiri te bomaki
Ethrepse, dendron, tes te komes
Aition, essomenon t' elenchos.
Keinos tokeos thrypse kai auchena,
Keinos ge, phaien, haimati xeinio
Mychotaton koitona rhaine
Nyktios, amphaphaase keinos
Ta deta Kolchon pharmaka, kai kakou
Pan chrema, dosas moi epichorion
Se stygnon ernos, despotou se
Empeson es kephalen aeikos.
Pases men hores pan epikindynon
Tis oide pheugein? deidie Bosphoron
Libys ho ploten, oud' anaiker
Ten kryphien heterothen oknei.
Parthon machemon Rhomaikos phygen,
Kai toxa; Parthos Rhomaiken bian,
Kai desma; laous alla moiras
Balle, balei t' adoketos horme.
Schedon schedon pos Persephones idon
Aulen melainen, kai krisin Aiakou,
Kalen t' apostasin makairon
Aioliais kinyren te chordais
Sappho patridos memphomenen korais,
Echounta kai se pleion epichryso,
Alkaie, plektro sklera neos,
Sklera phyges, polemou te sklera
Euphemeousai d' amphoteron skiai
Klyousi thambei, tas de machas pleon,
Anastatous te men tyrannous
Omias ekpien osi laos.
Ti thaum'? ekeinais ther hote trikranos
Aken aoidais, ouata kabbale,
Erinnyon th' hedypathousi
Bostryches, hesychion echidnon.
Kai de Prometheus, kai Pelopos pater
Heudousin echei to lathikedei;
Agein leontas Orion de
Ou phileei, phoberas te lynkas.}
Latin Poems.