deserit inceptum media inter iugera sulcum
Taurus iners colloque iugum deforme remisso
parte trahit, partem lacrimans sustentat arator.
--simile on Polynices' loss of Tydeus, Statius, Theb. IX.82 - 85
He is led away [from his friend's slain body] like a bull
who has just its yoke-mate, the companion of its labors.
It walks away from the furrow it had begun, leaving the job unfinished,
with lowered head, it drags the now empty half-yoke,
while a crying farmer struggles to hold up the other half.
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Name: Publius Papinius
Statius
Date: 45 – 96 CE
Works: Achilleid
Silvae
Thebaid*
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One of the most influential epic poets of the Silver Age, Statius
spent most of his life in Naples, Italy. His most famous work, the Thebaid,
is an epic poem that describes the civil war between the descendants of
Oedipus; he also wrote the Achilleid, a short epic on the boyhood of
Achilles.
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