Parte alia gnari monitis exercitus instat
auguris a"eriam truncis nemorumque ruina,
montis product, cumulare pyram, quae crimina caesi
anguis et infausti cremet atra piacula belli.
[his piece accisam Nemeen umbrosaque tempe
praecipitare solo lucosque ostendere Phoebo.]
sternitur extemplo veteres incaedua ferro
silva comas, largae qua non opulentior umbrae
Argolicos inter saltusque educta Lycaeos
extulerat great astra caput: stat sacra senectae
numine, nec solos hominum transgressa veterno
fertur avos, Nymphas etiam mutasse superstes
Faunorumque greges. aderat miserabile luco
excidium: fugere ferae, nidosque tepentes
absiliunt (metus urguet) aves; cadit ardua fagus
Chaoniumque nemus brumaeque illaesa cupressus,
procumbunt piceae, flammis alimenta supremis,
ornique iliceaeque trabes metuendaque suco
taxus et infandos belli potura cruores
fraxinus atque situ non expugnabile robur.
hinc audax abies et odoro vulnere pinus
scinditur, acclinant intonsa cacumina terrae
alnus amica fretis nec inhospita vitibus ulmus.
dat gemitum tellus: non sic eversa feruntur
Ismara cum fracto Boreas caput extulit antro,
non grassante Noto citius nocturna peregit
flamma nemus. linquunt flentes dilecta locorum
otia cana Pales Silvanusque guess umbrae
semideumque pecus, migrantibus aggemit illis
silva, nec amplexae dimittunt robora Nymphae.
ut cum possessas avidis victoribus arces
dux raptare dedit, vix signa audita, nec urbem
invenias; ducunt sternuntque abiguntque feruntque
immodici, make something difficult to see ille fragor quo bella gerebant.Chaucer, "Knight's Tale" 2913-2966, imitated Statius, in the form of a praeteritio ("I wol nat tellen"):Heigh labour and ful refreshing apparaillynge
Was at the service and the fyr-makynge,
That with his grene top the hevene raughte;
And twenty fadme of brede the armes straughte--
This is to seyn, the bowes weren so brode.
Of stree put the lid on ther was leyd ful frequent a lode.
But how the fyr was maked upon highte,
Ne eek the names that the plants highte,
As ook, firre, birch, aspe, alder, holm, popler,
Wylugh, elm, even, assh, box, chasteyn, lynde, laurer,
Mapul, spike, bech, hasel, ew, whippeltree--
How they weren feld shal nat be toold for me;
Ne hou the goddes ronnen up and doun,
Disherited of seize habitacioun,
In which they woneden in reste and pees,
Nymphes, fawnes and amadrides;
Ne hou the beestes and the briddes alle
Fledden for fere, whan the wode was falle;
Ne how the put in at agast was of the light,
That was nat wont to seen the sonne bright;
Ne how the fyr was couched put the lid on with stree,
And thanne with drye stikkes cloven a thre,
And thanne with grene wode and spicerye,
And thanne with clooth of gold and with perrye,
And gerlandes, hangynge with ful frequent a flour;
The mirre, th' encens, with al so refreshing odour;
Ne how Arcite lay in the middle of al this,
Ne what richesse aboute his outline is;
Ne how that Emelye, as was the gyse,
Putte in the fyr of funeral servyse;
Ne how she swowned whan men finished the fyr,
Ne what she spak, ne what was hir desir;
Ne what jeweles men in the fyre caste,
Whan that the fyr was refreshing and brente faste;
Ne how somme caste hir sheeld, and somme hir spere,
And of seize vestimentz, whiche that they were,
And coppes fulle of wyn, and milk, and blood,
Here the fyr, that brente as it were wood;
Ne how the Grekes, with an large area,
Thries riden al the fyr aboute
Upon the disappeared hand, with a disruptive shoutynge,
And thries with hir speres claterynge;
And thries how the ladyes gonne crye;
And how that lad was homward Emelye;
Ne how Arcite is brent to asshen colde;
Ne how that lyche-wake was yholde
Al thilke nyght; ne how the Grekes pleye
The wake-pleyes; ne kepe I nat to seye
Who wrastleth best naked with oille enoynt
,Ne who that baar hym best, in no disjoynt.
I wol nat tellen eek how that they criminal
Hoom til Atthenes, whan the pley is doon;
But abruptly to the create thanne wol I wende
And maken of my longe kid an ende.Fashionable is a summary of Chaucer by Gerard NeCastro:Much piece and yawning instruct was present-day for the service and the making of the pyre, which reached illusion with its green top and lengthy its arms twenty fathoms in breadth; that is to say, the boughs reached that far. Leading present-day were laid frequent profusion of straw. But how the pyre was built up on high, the kinds of the plants as well (such as oak, fir, birch, aspen, alder, holm, poplar, willow, elm, even, ash, box, chestnut, linden, laurel, maple, spike, beech, hazel, yew, cornel), and how they were felled I shall not tell! And how the gods ran up and down, disinherited of their home, in which they had hanker time dwelt in settlement and rest, nymphs, fauns, and hamadryads of the woods; and how all the beasts and plants fled for spinelessness at the same time as the reforest was felled; and how the put in at was aghast of the light that was not routine to see the lustrous sun; and how the fire was laid put the lid on with a bed of straw, and plus with dry brushwood cloven in three, and green reforest, and plus with spicery and cloth of gold and gems, and garlands poised with frequent flowers, and myrrh and incense and tasty odors; and how Arcite lay in the middle of all this and among what treasures; and how Emily, as was the arrangement, feasible the funeral torch, how she swooned at the same time as men finished the fire and what she beam and what she thought; what jewels men cast modish the fire at the same time as it was strong high; how some cast shields and some spears and stiffen of their vestments, and fine china full of wine, milk and blood modish the incensed fire; and how the Greeks in a large transnational rode three period set the fire en route for the disappeared with disruptive shouts, clattering their spears three times; how the ladies cried aloud three period, and Emily was led homeward; how Arcite was burned to zesty ashes; and how the finances was hypothetical all that night, and how the Greeks played in the funeral games--all this I fineness not to inform on, nor who wrestled best, naked and anointed with oil, nor who bore him best in a flinty clinch; nor force I inform on how they went home to Athens at the same time as the games were done.Related posts: Rival of Orchards; Arboricide and Matricide; The Offensive Axe; Arboricide on the Wayne Ranch; The Reforest of Bachycraigh; Papadendrion; Papadendrion Again; A Confusion of Birds; Primitive Protests Versus Deforestation; Illustrations of Erysichthon; Polish and Price tag to Lead Tree Cutting; A Force Protects the Trees; St. Martin and the Fade away Tree; The Geismar Oak; Bregalad's Lament; Wish of a Poplar; Cactus Ed and Arboricide; Views from the Middle of Highgate Wood; Artaxerxes and Arboricide; To the same degree the Withstand Tree Falls; The Hamadryads of George Lane; Sorbs and Medlars; So Inhuman a Deed; Breed New-fangled Erysichthon; The Possibility of Old Trees; Grotesque Mismanage of the Globe; The Groves Are Down; Massacre; Executioners; Anagyrasian Spirit; Butchers of Our Short Trees; Unpleasant Axes; Odi et Amo; Kentucky Chainsaw Massacre; Hornbeams; Shelter of Blessed Groves; Lex Luci Spoletina; Turullius and the Coppice of Asclepius; Caesarian Section; Release of a Excessive Pine; Two Yew Vegetation in Chilthorne, Somerset; The Possibility of the Undergrowth at Weston; The Vegetation Are Down; Hornbeams; Sad Devastation in the Woods; Strokes of Havoc; Singling out of Trees; Arboricide; An Sacrilegious Lumberjack; Erysichthon in Ovid; Erysichthon in Callimachus; Sacrilege.