“You, whom Venus of her grace united to me in the springtime of my days, and in old age keeps mine.”
Nempe benigna
quam mihi sorte Venus iunctam florentibus annis
servat et in senium.
Statius Silvae
v, line 22 (tr. J. H. Mozley)
Silvae, Book III
Publius Papinius Statius bol rímsky básnik strieborného obdobia rímskej literatúry.

“You, whom Venus of her grace united to me in the springtime of my days, and in old age keeps mine.”
Nempe benigna
quam mihi sorte Venus iunctam florentibus annis
servat et in senium.
Statius Silvae
v, line 22 (tr. J. H. Mozley)
Silvae, Book III
“The flame-appointed pyre.”
Damnatus flammae torus.
Statius kniha Thebaid
Zdroj: Thebaid, Book VI, Line 55 (tr. J. H. Mozley)
“Bacchei vineta madentia Gauri.”
Statius Silvae
The flowing vineyards of Bacchic Gaurus.
v, line 99
Silvae, Book III