α β γ δ ε ζ η θ ι κ λ μ ν ξ ο π ρ ς σ τ υ φ χ ψ ω Α Β Γ Δ Ε Ζ Η Θ Ι Κ Λ Μ Ν Ξ Ο Π Ρ C Σ Τ Υ Φ Χ Ψ Ω ἀ ἁ ά ὰ ᾶ ἄ ἅ ἂ ἃ ἆ ἇ ᾳ ᾷ Ἀ Ἁ Ἄ Ἅ Ἂ Ἃ Ἆ Ἇ ἐ ἑ έ ὲ ἔ ἕ ἒ ἓ Ἐ Ἑ Ἔ Ἕ ἠ ἡ ή ὴ ῆ ἤ ἥ ἢ ἣ ἦ ἧ ῃ ῇ ᾗ Ἠ Ἡ Ἤ Ἥ Ἦ Ἧ ἰ ἱ ί ὶ ἴ ἵ ἲ ἳ ἶ ἷ ῖ Ἰ Ἱ Ἴ Ἵ Ἶ Ἷ ὀ ὁ ό ὸ ὄ ὅ ὂ ὃ Ὀ Ὁ Ὄ Ὅ Ὂ Ὃ ῥ ὐ ὑ ύ ὺ ὔ ὕ ὒ ὓ ὖ ὗ ῦ Ὑ Ὓ Ὕ Ὗ Ῠ Ῡ Ὺ Ύ ὠ ὡ ώ ὼ ὤ ὥ ὢ ὣ ὦ ὧ ῳ ῶ ῷ ᾧ ᾤ Ὠ Ὡ Ὤ Ὥ Ὢ Ὣ Ὦ Ὧ Schließen Bewegen ?
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Γραικύλος schrieb am 06.04.2022 um 14:01 Uhr (Zitieren)
Fortsetzung Statius, Silvae:
You, lad, exceed them all; only more handsome is he
To whom you shall be given.” So saying, she swept
Him up through the air, in her swan-drawn chariot.
Swiftly they reach the Latian Hills, and the Palatine
Once Evander’s home (1), newly adorned by Domitian
Father of the globe, level now with the highest stars.
Then the goddess took close care how best to dress
His hair, what clothes might now highlight his looks,
What gold was fittest to circle his neck and fingers.
She knew the Leader’s celestial gaze, she had linked
The wedding torches, openly handed him his bride.
Thus she combs those locks, drapes the lad in Tyrian
Garments, grants him rays of her own fire. Former
Favourites, a crowd of servants, draw back; and he
With fairer hand, bears first cups to the Leader, solid
Fluorspar and crystal; fresh grace improves the wine.
Lad, dear to the gods [Care puer superis], chosen as taster of the sacred
Nectar, selected to touch that mighty hand, and often;
As the Getae, Persians, Indians, Armenians seek to do.
Born under a lucky star, oh, how the gods favoured you.
Once too, Asclepius himself, god of your land, left
Lofty Pergamus to cross the sea, before the first down
Marred your bright cheeks, dimmed your beauty’s glory.
No other power was credited with transforming the boy:
With silent art, Apollo’s son gently suppressed his sex,
No wound apparent. For Venus had been anxious lest
The lad suffer; the noble Leader had not yet ordered
Male children left intact; now it is illegal to castrate,
And mutilate manhood (2); Nature rejoices, seeing only
What she creates. No longer are female slaves fearful
Of bearing sons to endure the effects of an evil ruling.
Had you been born later, you too, of greater strength,
Would have known darkened cheeks, and fuller limbs.
You’d have rejoiced to send beard as well as shavings
To Apollo’s shrine; now let those locks alone sail on
To your father’s shore. Venus drenched them in copious
Perfumes, a kindly Grace would comb them threefold.
Purpled Nisus’s severed lock will yield it precedence,
And that which proud Achilles vowed to Sperchius.
When your snow-white brow was first ordered to be
Cropped, and your gleaming shoulders to be unveiled,
The tender winged boys, with their mother Venus, flew
To place the silk bib round your neck, and prepare your
Tresses. Then they joined their arrows to cut the locks,
And set them with gold and gems. Venus caught them
As they fell, and bathed them again in secret essences.
Then from the crowd of boys, one lad who happened
To be bearing a splendid golden gemmed mirror in his
Raised hands cried: “Let’s send this too, nothing could be
More pleasing to your home temple; only fix your gaze
Within, more potent than the gold, leave your image there.”
So saying he enclosed the captured likeness in the mirror.
But the peerless lad himself, stretched his arms to the stars,
Saying: “Gentlest guardian of mankind, in return for these,
If I have merited it, and you so will, renew our master’s
Youth and preserve him to the world. The stars request it,
The sea and earth, and I. May he exceed, I pray Nestor’s
Years and Priam’s, glad to grow old beside the sanctuary
Of his household gods, and beside the Tarpeian temple.”
So he spoke, and Pergamus marvelled as its altars shook.
[Sic ait, et motas miratur Pergamos aras.]

(III 4)

(1) der Palatin mit Domitians neuem Palast
(2) Domitian hatte die Kastration von Knaben verboten: Sueton, Domitian 7.
 
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