# Anticlaudianus 1.1988-2032

Alanus de Insulis, Anticlaudianus, Lines 1.1988-1.2032. Latin.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/latin/alanus-de-insulis/anticlaudianus/1.1988

Quid gerat interius facies docet ipsa, rubore
Predicat interni rabiem pestemque furoris;
Tabe sua uiciat comitem, sociumque planetam
Vel seuum seuire docet, uel forte benignum
Nequicia docet esse trucem leditque ueneno.
Cuius spera ruens tonantis more tonando
Clamat et altisonos resonat clamore boatus.
Alcius exclamat reliquis Syrena tonantis
Martis, sed cantus dulcedo remittitur ipsa
Tempestate soni langens, minuitque fauorem
Asperitas, uocisque rigor fert damna fauori.
[438-462]
Et jam Lemniacos uomitus ignisque uapores
Virgineus labor euadit nec flamma uiantem
Contigit aut eius ausa est contingere crinem.
Tunc Iouis ignocuos ignes, lucisque serene
Leticiam, risusque poli pertemptat eundo.
Hic regio stelle Iouialis lampade tota
Splendet et eterno letatur uere beata.
Hic sydus Iouiale micat mundoque salutem
Nunciat et Martis iram Martisque furorem
Sistit et occurit tranquilla pace furenti.
Cui si stella mali prenuncia, preuia casus
Iungitur, ille tamen inimicum sidus amicat,
Alternansque uices, in risus tristia, planctum
In plausus, fletusque graues in gaudia mutat;
Vel si forte Ioui societur stella salutis
Nuncia, stella Iouis uultu meliore salutem
Auget et euentus melioris dupplicat omen,
Fedus amans pacisque sator, nutritor amoris,
Extirpans iras, proscribens bella, furores
Compescens, delens lites Martemque refrenans.
Qui motu generans sonitum, non uerberat auram
Obtuso cantu, sed dulcibus allicit aures
Cantibus et dulcem Philomenam reddit amenans
Musa Iouis, tantoque sono letatur alumpno
Musica que proprie thesauros aggerat artis.
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Vlterius progressa suos Prudencia gressus
Dirigit ad superos, superans Iouis atria cursu,
Saturnique domos tractu maiore iacentes
Intrat et algores hyemis brumeque pruinas
Horret et ignauum frigus miratur in estu.
Illic feruet hyems, estas algescit et estus
Friget, delirat splendor, dum flamma tepescit.
Hie tenebre lucent, hie lux tenebrescit et illic
Nox cum luce nitet et lux cum nocte diescit.

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