De consolatione Philosophiae 02.06 University of Oxford CLASP Project nick.white@ell.ox.ac.uk £.BOETH.Cons.Phil02.06 Distributed by the University of Oxford under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License Library of Congress Subject Headings Latin Poems De consolatione Philosophiae 02.06
Nouimus quantas dederit ruinas Vrbe flammata patribusque caesis, Fratre qui quondam ferus interempto Matris effuso maduit cruore Corpus et uisu gelidum pererrans Ora non tinxit lacrimis, sed esse Censor exstincti potuit decoris. Hic tamen sceptro populos regebat Quos uidet condens radios sub undas Phoebus, extremo ueniens ab ortu, Quos premunt septem gelidi triones Quos Notus sicco uiolentus aestu Torret ardentes recoquens harenas. Celsa num tandem ualuit potestas Vertere praui rabiem Neronis? Heu grauem sortem, quotiens iniquus Additur saeuo gladius ueneno!