“You, whom Venus of her grace united to me in the springtime of my days, and in old age keeps mine.”
Nempe benigna
quam mihi sorte Venus iunctam florentibus annis
servat et in senium.
Statius Silvae
v, line 22 (tr. J. H. Mozley)
Silvae, Book III
Stace est un poète de langue latine de la Rome antique, né à Naples le 27 mars 40, mort en 96.

“You, whom Venus of her grace united to me in the springtime of my days, and in old age keeps mine.”
Nempe benigna
quam mihi sorte Venus iunctam florentibus annis
servat et in senium.
Statius Silvae
v, line 22 (tr. J. H. Mozley)
Silvae, Book III
“The flame-appointed pyre.”
Damnatus flammae torus.
Statius livre Thebaid
Source: Thebaid, Book VI, Line 55 (tr. J. H. Mozley)
“Bacchei vineta madentia Gauri.”
Statius Silvae
The flowing vineyards of Bacchic Gaurus.
v, line 99
Silvae, Book III