Transcriber’s Note: Erroneous references to c. m. 53 in the Index have been changed to c. m. 52 (there is no c. m. 53). Volume 1 is available as Project Gutenberg ebook number 51443. THE LOEB CLASSICAL LIBRARY EDITED BY E. CAPPS, PH.D., LL.D. T. E. PAGE, LITT.D. W. H. D. ROUSE, LITT.D. CLAUDIAN II CLAUDIAN WITH AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION BY MAURICE PLATNAUER SOMETIME HONORARY SCHOLAR OF NEW COLLEGE, OXFORD ASSISTANT MASTER AT WINCHESTER COLLEGE IN TWO VOLUMES II LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN NEW YORK: G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS MCMXXII CONTENTS OF VOLUME II PAGE ON STILICHIO’S CONSULSHIP-- BOOK II 3 BOOK III: PREFACE 39 BOOK III 43 PANEGYRIC ON THE SIXTH CONSULSHIP OF THE EMPEROR HONORIUS (A.D. 404)-- PREFACE 71 THE PANEGYRIC 75 THE GOTHIC WAR-- PREFACE 125 THE GOTHIC WAR 127 SHORTER POEMS 175 RAPE OF PROSERPINE-- BOOK I: PREFACE 293 BOOK I 293 BOOK II: PREFACE 315 BOOK II 319 BOOK III 345 INDEX OF POEMS 379 INDEX OF PROPER NAMES 383 * * * * * Page 1 CLAUDIAN * * * * * Page 2 CLAUDII CLAUDIANI CARMINA DE CONSULATU STILICHONIS LIBER SECUNDUS (XXII.) Hactenus armatae laudes: nunc qualibus orbem moribus et quanto frenet metuendus amore, quo tandem flexus trabeas auctore rogantes induerit fastisque suum concesserit annum, mitior incipiat fidibus iam Musa remissis. 5