Tractatus sive Physiologia Nova de Magnete

Claudianus on the Magnet.

And to soften his face, when he boils headlong
With blood, and sharpens his wrath with unsheathed blades.
She alone meets his wild horses, and softens the swelling
Of his chest, and tempers his heart with a charming fire.
A tranquil peace is given to his spirit, he abandons
Hot battles, and lowers his red crests for kisses.
What power, savage boy referring to Cupid, is not permitted to you?
You surpass the great thunderbolt, and having left heaven,
You force the Thunderer Jupiter to roar in the midst of the waves.
Now you strike icy cliffs and limbs lacking
Living sex: now rocks are subject to your arrows,
And stones are moved by their own ardor, and iron is held
By allurements: flames reign in rigid marble.

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