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Heathcote William Garrod, comp. (1878–1960). The Oxford Book of Latin Verse. 1912.

Modestinus circa 350 A.D.

Another Martyrdom of Cupid

FORTE iacebat Amor uictus puer alite somno

myrti inter frutices pallentis roris in herba.

hunc procul emissae tenebrosa Ditis ab aula

circueunt animae, saeua face quas cruciarat.

‘ecce meus uenator’, ait ‘hunc’ Phaedra ‘ligemus!’

crudelis ‘crinem’ clamabat Scylla ‘metamus!’

Colchis et orba Procne ‘numerosa caede necemus!’

Didon et Canace ‘saeuo gladio perimamus!’

Myrrha ‘meis ramis’, Euhadneque ‘igne crememus!’

‘hunc’ Arethusa inquit Byblisque ‘in fonte necemus!’

ast Amor euigilans dixit ‘mea pinna, uolemus’.