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Catullus 64, 1-24

Peliaco once descended from the clear whirlpool declared Neptune of the sea during a flood to Phasodos to the wave and the end of Aeetaos, when the young chosen, Gaius Argiuae gave his strength to the people, they gilded the chosen skin turned away from Colchis to be prepared in a shallow place salted and set in a hurry for the ship, The sea was swept clean of wood and the palm made smooth. The divine goddess who observed into the greatest the City and protected herself made smooth flying about the priest and chariot, bent the pines together weaving the ship. That rough course wet the first Amphitriten, which at the same time cut the windy curved bow and turned the sea and rowing the waves and foam turned gray, they admired as it emerged from the sea the gleaming face of the whirlpool the monster of the sea Nereides. That, and another, They looked at the shining sea with mortal eyes the striped bodies of nymphs nursing existing as far out of the whirlpool aged. Then Thetis Peleus set fire and took his love, then Thetis the man did not distain marriage, Then the father of Thetis married Peleus to Thetis feel. O none optione the scared time of sailors and heroes, be well, good gods! O good mother of the family, be well for him, be well for good! This often, my song compels!

Catullus 64, 60-85

When out from the seaweed came the darling daughter of the grim Minos, rocky images reveled, foresee, alas, foresee and surge the great waves of concern, not the golden hair restrained by a band, nor her smooth breast veiled by clothing, nor smooth band restraining her breast, all that happened because of body here they played before the rows of foot soldiers and the waves of the open sea. But neither then the headband nor next the floating clothed that undertaken change from her heart, Theseus all her life, all hanging in destruction. Misery, tributes that great thorny grief Erycina’s wreath in the heart, that season, wild from the time Theseus set sail for the crooked shore and touched Piraei ruled by the unjust Gorgon temple. for the once cruel plague once gathered as the Androgeonan penalty was that youth must be picked out and relinquished for slaughter and the unmarried given as sacrifice to the minotaur. The great evil of the narrow place disturbed them, Theseus himself offered his body to Athens to be chosen and thrown to Crete rather than the others for he would thrive at the funeral of Cecropis not his burial. And so his smooth bold ship gleamed in the light and the gentle breeze to the home of the arrogant Minos.

Catullus 64, 132-201

“So I sail off into my homeland, treacherous, by the faithless alter, desert and abandon onto the shore, Theseus? So depart the neglected number of the divine, the forgetful! Bewitch the house of false gate? Nothing is able to bend the cruel mental debate? You need not apply mercy to exist, cruel that our wish has compassion in the hearts? But not once flattering promises gave me expression, nor this miserable trust ordered, but marriages gladden, but choose a Greek chant, which they all rend useless in the wind. Now no virus swears the woman to trust, no man hopes for faithful conversations; which while some wish for intellect be very eager to attain it, nothing they fear shall swear, nothing they forbear promise, but at the same time desire mental nourishment and desire, speak nothing of fear, nothing they see as false. Surly I the mediator keep turning the turbines by force, and better the genuine lose the resolve, which you deceitfully want for above all time. For that tearing wild strikes dedication of nourishment and loot, nor enter a deed in the dead land covered with graves. That which you bring forth alone under a rock with lioness, which the sea conceived from the waves and foam, which sandbank, that the sandbank grasping, which lay waste to Carybdis, such that to restore for a pleasant rewarded life? If you do not make heart mind our marriage, savage that dreads ancient teachings apparent, but yet in your being able to lead settle, you delight to attend to the work of a slave, bright clear water soothes the step, your cover garment of the bed. But who is ignorant in vain of the lament of the breeze, a great evil, which none sensed increased not sent but heard not a restored summon? That however near the middle kept turning in the wave, not which they prepared empty in the mortal seaweed, thus too much leapt to the extreme time for besides our men envy the complaint of breeze. Jupiter the all powerful, if only time were not first Gnosia Cecropiae that they touched shore, untamed and not cursed being tribute to the deceitful bull in Crete bound fast the sailor to the rope, not this evil concealed pleasant cruel form of debate in our rest but host! Do u not know to whom I refer? What kind of hope ruins our splendor? Idaeosne attacks the mountain? But the whirlpool brings discernment to the sea the aggressive divide level. Can it be that the father helps the trust? Leave behind the sprinkle of youth and follow the brotherly code? Love the faithful spouse and console them? Flee clinging and bent into the whirlpool? Besides no one’s honor alone protects the island, not open land landing a place from the sea surrounded by waves. None accounted for flight, none objected: all changed, they all deserted, show all the death. None still before my age of the light of death, nor ahead tired they withdrew the feeling of the body, which a just goddess requested many projects and heavenly skies came after loyalty so invoke the time. How he made the man a defender of the fine poetry of Eumenides, who’s snaky hair is surrounded by a garland of leaves so breathe out and carry before the heart anger, this approach, I listen to the complaints, which I, alas misery, bring forward the weak extreme collect together, burn, demented blind madness. That because the true born of heart indeed, you unwilling suffer we disappear for grief, but only Theseus abounded my mind, such a mind, the goddess, and polluted those men by murder.”

Catullus 64, 382-408

Uttering such great music the happy Peleus sang of the divine fate with heart. Presently before the house watched a pure hero, and the human showed social connection, the deity was not accustomed yet to despising responsibility. Often he revisited his father god in his shinning temple, yearly when the festival came he would sacrifice on the scared day, to observe the earth one hundred bulls laid down. Often the wandering children of Parnasi went to the edge of the whirlpool where Thyiadas spread wide crying euhan urging the plume, when the whole of Delphi in competition with the city destroyed take hold the lush air from the altar smoke. Often in the deadly war and battle of Mars or the swift mistress of Triton or Amarusia the maiden equipped for man existing in the present encouraging the troops. But after the wicked earth is soaked with wicked justice and all passion put flight from the mind, flood the fists of the brotherly families, stop killing birth mourn the parents, choose to father the youthful children of funeral, free to marry the captured flourished stepmother, ignorant mother spreads the wickedness swimming rendering not divine respect which defiled the Penates. All speak wicked evils of mixed madness truly we reason to turn from the gods. How neither such great dignity we encounter, nor allow suffering to be made clear in the light.