Monday, March 2, 2009
Friday, February 27, 2009
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Catullus 39
EGNATIVS, quod candidos habet dentes, renidet usque quaque. si ad rei uentum est subsellium, cum orator excitat fletum, renidet ille; si ad pii rogum fili lugetur, orba cum flet unicum mater, renidet ille. quidquid est, ubicumque est, quodcumque agit, renidet: hunc habet morbum, neque elegantem, ut arbitror, neque urbanum. quare monendum est te mihi, bone Egnati. si urbanus esses aut Sabinus aut Tiburs aut pinguis Vmber aut obesus Etruscus aut Lanuuinus ater atque dentatus aut Transpadanus, ut meos quoque attingam, aut quilubet, qui puriter lauit dentes, tamen renidere usque quaque te nollem: nam risu inepto res ineptior nulla est. nunc Celtiber es: Celtiberia in terra, quod quisque minxit, hoc sibi solet mane dentem atque russam defricare gingiuam, ut quo iste uester expolitior dens est, hoc te amplius bibisse praedicet loti.
1. Habet- 3rd person, singular, present active indicative, to have
2. Excitat- 3rd person, singular, present active indicative, to wake up
3. Renidet- 3rd person, singular, present active indicative, to shine
4. Lauit- 3rd person, singular, perfect active indicative, to wash
5. Solet- 3rd person, singular, present active indicative, to be in the habit of
Egnatius, because you have radient teeth, they shine to everyone. If the thing comes up to the bench, when the speaker stirs from weeping, those shine; if to mourn the blessed dead son on the funeral pyre, cry for the only mothers who are childless, those shine. Because of this, wherever is, drive however many, they shine: They have death, nor elegant, to judge, neither city wit. Remind me how you, good Egnatius. If the city is or Sabines or Tiber or the rich Vimber or the rich Etrsucans or Lanuuinus black and the teeth and beyond, that my likewise touch, or that it pleases, that you wash your teeth with pus 3 times a day, yet all the way that and be unwilling: for silly laughter is trifling thing not existing. Now the Celtiberae: The Celtiberae in the land, which will urinate, this they became accustomed to mourn the teeth and rub hard with red gum, that your teeth are, this you drink greatly before you wash and bathe.
1. Habet- 3rd person, singular, present active indicative, to have
2. Excitat- 3rd person, singular, present active indicative, to wake up
3. Renidet- 3rd person, singular, present active indicative, to shine
4. Lauit- 3rd person, singular, perfect active indicative, to wash
5. Solet- 3rd person, singular, present active indicative, to be in the habit of
Egnatius, because you have radient teeth, they shine to everyone. If the thing comes up to the bench, when the speaker stirs from weeping, those shine; if to mourn the blessed dead son on the funeral pyre, cry for the only mothers who are childless, those shine. Because of this, wherever is, drive however many, they shine: They have death, nor elegant, to judge, neither city wit. Remind me how you, good Egnatius. If the city is or Sabines or Tiber or the rich Vimber or the rich Etrsucans or Lanuuinus black and the teeth and beyond, that my likewise touch, or that it pleases, that you wash your teeth with pus 3 times a day, yet all the way that and be unwilling: for silly laughter is trifling thing not existing. Now the Celtiberae: The Celtiberae in the land, which will urinate, this they became accustomed to mourn the teeth and rub hard with red gum, that your teeth are, this you drink greatly before you wash and bathe.
Monday, February 23, 2009
SSALP- a new week
Well its a new week here on Rancor and that means its time for another installment of SSALP. This week I have a tribute to all of you forward thinking, summer time people. I think that we all know one guy who is guaranteed to say this at least once a day, for the entire length of the summer season.
Non calor sed umor est qui nobis incommodat.
It's not the heat, it's the humidity.
There you go, I hope that all you annoying Captian Obvious' out there enjoy bothering people in anothe language. Until next time...
Non calor sed umor est qui nobis incommodat.
It's not the heat, it's the humidity.
There you go, I hope that all you annoying Captian Obvious' out there enjoy bothering people in anothe language. Until next time...
Friday, February 20, 2009
Catullus 37 Test 2/20/09
Essay- The problem with poem 37
While Catullus is one of the best known Latin writers there are many aspects of this poetry that are misunderstood and over analyzed. These features have been studied by classical scholars and, while there can be no definite answer, many try to find the truth. But when can the truth be determined and how are these things discovered. Because his writings are open for interpretation, there can never really be a true answer to their meanings. But in poem 37 there is an obvious theme that runs throughout. Catullus wrote poem 37 as a comic poem intended to sting his enemies but to also be enjoyed by the masses.
When Catullus wrote he would often use sarcasm and innuendo to make his point. And in poem 37 Catullus uses his comic wit to knock down the competition, “Salax taberna uosque contubernales”. These friends hang around the tavern and do nothing but ogle women. One of those women was Lesbia and in response to the trouble Catullus reacts not with anger but comic wit. Catullus states his relationship with Lesbia, “puella nam mi”, and has a little fun at the expense of their egos.While Catullus has plenty of wit and sarcasm, sometimes there’s nothing like an old fashioned insult. And Catullus never backs down from a chance for some creative name calling. “confutuere et putare ceteros hircos”. Catullus puts the brothers in their place but uses humor instead of rage. Catullus also threatens the men with a very creative punishment if they do not leave his beloved alone. “frontem tabernae sopionibus scribam”. But are these insults an act of hatred? They seem too outlandish to have any stake in reality. Which means that their roots lie in comedic responses. Catullus is writing a comedic short poem, not a spiteful retort.The one aspect of “Barflies” which would seem to indicate an insult poem is the range and degree to which he uses them and has used insults in the past. There are plenty of Catullus’ insult poetry throughout his works and some of these are based on the other men Lesbia is involved with. But it is hard to believe that Catullus meant poem 37 to be strictly an insult poem. Sure the poem is riddled with name calling but the way it is put so eloquently indicates that Catullus was trying to be humorous, not just mean. “dens Hibera defricatus urina”. “omnes pusilli et semitarii moechi”. Catullus was a creative person, and it is shown well here in his insult comedy.Catullus was a very complicated man. He had a lover who most likely was just amused by him, and many enemies throughout the writing community. But Catullus did know how to be funny and he knew what made people laugh. He drew upon the people’s love of insults and their appreciation for verbal beatings and used it for his own profit. His poem “Barflies” is a good example of how Catullus appealed to the Romans of his day. He saw an opportunity to cut down a few guys that he knew and made it into a literary masterpiece. Perhaps the seven brothers never even existed and he just wrote the poem for some laughs. Whatever the inspiration, poem 37 illustrates the power of vulgar comedy when in the hands of a master insulter.
Translation of Catullus 37
The seven brothers who are in the tavern,
The brothers who hang around the nine pillars,
They think they alone have dicks,
Alone present, because of the women,
They consort and think they are he-goats?
So, watching they sit a hundred hours
(perhaps two hundred?) are they not able to assure
That I forced two hundred for oral pleasure?
Thus they think, that and I will myself
Draw dicks upon the walls of the tavern.
The girl is mine, so flee when she is with me,
She loves me with all and loves you not,
For I would fight great wars for her,
To help in this dive of yours. This is fine and well to do all love,
And which, when she is insulted,
All the small and sexual maniacs;
Who go beyond the one boundary,
Son of the Spanish Celtiberia,
Egnati, who make good beards from the hair
And rub their teeth with urine on the Hibera.
Catullus 37- 5 parsed verbs
1. Scribam- 1st person, singular, future active indicative of scribe meaning to write
2. Fugit- 3rd person, plural, present active indicative of fuga meaning to flee
3. Putare- 3rd person, plural, present active indicative of puto meaning to think
4. Putatis- 2nd person, plural, present active indicative of puto meaning to think
5. Facit- 3rd person, plural, present active indicative of facio meaning to make, do
While Catullus is one of the best known Latin writers there are many aspects of this poetry that are misunderstood and over analyzed. These features have been studied by classical scholars and, while there can be no definite answer, many try to find the truth. But when can the truth be determined and how are these things discovered. Because his writings are open for interpretation, there can never really be a true answer to their meanings. But in poem 37 there is an obvious theme that runs throughout. Catullus wrote poem 37 as a comic poem intended to sting his enemies but to also be enjoyed by the masses.
When Catullus wrote he would often use sarcasm and innuendo to make his point. And in poem 37 Catullus uses his comic wit to knock down the competition, “Salax taberna uosque contubernales”. These friends hang around the tavern and do nothing but ogle women. One of those women was Lesbia and in response to the trouble Catullus reacts not with anger but comic wit. Catullus states his relationship with Lesbia, “puella nam mi”, and has a little fun at the expense of their egos.While Catullus has plenty of wit and sarcasm, sometimes there’s nothing like an old fashioned insult. And Catullus never backs down from a chance for some creative name calling. “confutuere et putare ceteros hircos”. Catullus puts the brothers in their place but uses humor instead of rage. Catullus also threatens the men with a very creative punishment if they do not leave his beloved alone. “frontem tabernae sopionibus scribam”. But are these insults an act of hatred? They seem too outlandish to have any stake in reality. Which means that their roots lie in comedic responses. Catullus is writing a comedic short poem, not a spiteful retort.The one aspect of “Barflies” which would seem to indicate an insult poem is the range and degree to which he uses them and has used insults in the past. There are plenty of Catullus’ insult poetry throughout his works and some of these are based on the other men Lesbia is involved with. But it is hard to believe that Catullus meant poem 37 to be strictly an insult poem. Sure the poem is riddled with name calling but the way it is put so eloquently indicates that Catullus was trying to be humorous, not just mean. “dens Hibera defricatus urina”. “omnes pusilli et semitarii moechi”. Catullus was a creative person, and it is shown well here in his insult comedy.Catullus was a very complicated man. He had a lover who most likely was just amused by him, and many enemies throughout the writing community. But Catullus did know how to be funny and he knew what made people laugh. He drew upon the people’s love of insults and their appreciation for verbal beatings and used it for his own profit. His poem “Barflies” is a good example of how Catullus appealed to the Romans of his day. He saw an opportunity to cut down a few guys that he knew and made it into a literary masterpiece. Perhaps the seven brothers never even existed and he just wrote the poem for some laughs. Whatever the inspiration, poem 37 illustrates the power of vulgar comedy when in the hands of a master insulter.
Translation of Catullus 37
The seven brothers who are in the tavern,
The brothers who hang around the nine pillars,
They think they alone have dicks,
Alone present, because of the women,
They consort and think they are he-goats?
So, watching they sit a hundred hours
(perhaps two hundred?) are they not able to assure
That I forced two hundred for oral pleasure?
Thus they think, that and I will myself
Draw dicks upon the walls of the tavern.
The girl is mine, so flee when she is with me,
She loves me with all and loves you not,
For I would fight great wars for her,
To help in this dive of yours. This is fine and well to do all love,
And which, when she is insulted,
All the small and sexual maniacs;
Who go beyond the one boundary,
Son of the Spanish Celtiberia,
Egnati, who make good beards from the hair
And rub their teeth with urine on the Hibera.
Catullus 37- 5 parsed verbs
1. Scribam- 1st person, singular, future active indicative of scribe meaning to write
2. Fugit- 3rd person, plural, present active indicative of fuga meaning to flee
3. Putare- 3rd person, plural, present active indicative of puto meaning to think
4. Putatis- 2nd person, plural, present active indicative of puto meaning to think
5. Facit- 3rd person, plural, present active indicative of facio meaning to make, do
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
The Problem with Poem 37
While Catullus is one of the best known Latin writers there are many aspects of this poetry that are misunderstood and over analyzed. These aspects of his writings have been studied by classical scholars and while there can be no definite answer many try to find the truth. But when can the truth be determined and how are these things discovered. Because his writings are open for interpretation there can never really be a true answer to their meanings. But in poem 37 there is an obvious theme that runs throughout. Catullus wrote poem 37 as a comic poem intended to sting his enemies but to also be enjoyed by the masses.
When Catullus wrote he would often use sarcasm and innuendo to make his point. And in poem 37 Catullus uses his comic wit to knock down the competition, “Salax taberna uosque contubernales”. These friends hang around the tavern and do nothing but ogle women. One of those women was Lesbia and in response to the trouble Catullus reacts not with anger but comic wit. Catullus states his relationship with Lesbia, “puella nam mi”, and has a little fun at the expense of their egos.
While Catullus has plenty of wit and sarcasm, sometimes there’s nothing like an old fashioned insult. And Catullus never backs down from a chance for some creative name calling. “confutuere et putare ceteros hircos”. Catullus puts the brothers in their place but uses humor instead of rage. Catullus also threatens the men with a very creative punishment if they do not leave his beloved alone. “frontem tabernae sopionibus scribam”. But are these insults an act of hatred? They seem too outlandish to have any stake in reality. Which means that their roots lie in comedic responses. Catullus is writing a comedic short poem, not a spiteful retort.
The one aspect of “Barflies” which would seem to indicate an insult poem is the range and degree to which he uses them and has used insults in the past. There are plenty of Catullus’ insult poetry throughout his works and some of these are based on the other men Lesbia is involved with. But it is hard to believe that Catullus meant poem 37 to be strictly an insult poem. Sure the poem is riddled with name calling but the way it is put so eloquently indicates that Catullus was trying to be humorous, not just mean. “dens Hibera defricatus urina”. “omnes pusilli et semitarii moechi”. Catullus was a creative person, and it is shown well here in his insult comedy.
Catullus was a very complicated man. He had a lover who most likely was just amused by him, and many enemies throughout the writing community. But Catullus did know how to be funny and he knew what made people laugh. He drew upon the people’s love of insults and their appreciation for verbal beatings and used it for his own profit. His poem “Barflies” is a good example of how Catullus appealed to the Romans of his day. He saw an opportunity to cut down a few guys that he knew and made it into a literary masterpiece. Perhaps the seven brothers never even existed and he just wrote the poem for some laughs. Whatever the inspiration, poem 37 illustrates the power of vulgar comedy when in the hands of a master insulter.
When Catullus wrote he would often use sarcasm and innuendo to make his point. And in poem 37 Catullus uses his comic wit to knock down the competition, “Salax taberna uosque contubernales”. These friends hang around the tavern and do nothing but ogle women. One of those women was Lesbia and in response to the trouble Catullus reacts not with anger but comic wit. Catullus states his relationship with Lesbia, “puella nam mi”, and has a little fun at the expense of their egos.
While Catullus has plenty of wit and sarcasm, sometimes there’s nothing like an old fashioned insult. And Catullus never backs down from a chance for some creative name calling. “confutuere et putare ceteros hircos”. Catullus puts the brothers in their place but uses humor instead of rage. Catullus also threatens the men with a very creative punishment if they do not leave his beloved alone. “frontem tabernae sopionibus scribam”. But are these insults an act of hatred? They seem too outlandish to have any stake in reality. Which means that their roots lie in comedic responses. Catullus is writing a comedic short poem, not a spiteful retort.
The one aspect of “Barflies” which would seem to indicate an insult poem is the range and degree to which he uses them and has used insults in the past. There are plenty of Catullus’ insult poetry throughout his works and some of these are based on the other men Lesbia is involved with. But it is hard to believe that Catullus meant poem 37 to be strictly an insult poem. Sure the poem is riddled with name calling but the way it is put so eloquently indicates that Catullus was trying to be humorous, not just mean. “dens Hibera defricatus urina”. “omnes pusilli et semitarii moechi”. Catullus was a creative person, and it is shown well here in his insult comedy.
Catullus was a very complicated man. He had a lover who most likely was just amused by him, and many enemies throughout the writing community. But Catullus did know how to be funny and he knew what made people laugh. He drew upon the people’s love of insults and their appreciation for verbal beatings and used it for his own profit. His poem “Barflies” is a good example of how Catullus appealed to the Romans of his day. He saw an opportunity to cut down a few guys that he knew and made it into a literary masterpiece. Perhaps the seven brothers never even existed and he just wrote the poem for some laughs. Whatever the inspiration, poem 37 illustrates the power of vulgar comedy when in the hands of a master insulter.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Catullus 37
Catullus 37 Barflies
In the tavern there are lustful brothers,
The brothers hang around the nine pillars,
You think that you alone have dicks,
You alone bid for them, that whatever girl is there,
Wants to lie with them and the rest he-goats?
Can it be that, you who sit unbroken, stupid
for a hundred ( two hundred, perhaps?), none of you intend to think
while I alone have two hundred time oral than the loungers?
But you think: I will not draw your whole face on the tavern and with it a dick.
The girl is mine, flee that of my curve,
She shall love none so great as her love,
For i wage war for the fight of her greatness,
Sit down over there. All this love is good and happy,
And indeed, that is unworthy,
All the little trifles and footpaths of adulterers;
Besides you all only have one long hair,
Son of the Celtiberians who abound in rabbits, Egnati,
They make their dark beards
And rub their teeth with urine like the Hiberus.
In the tavern there are lustful brothers,
The brothers hang around the nine pillars,
You think that you alone have dicks,
You alone bid for them, that whatever girl is there,
Wants to lie with them and the rest he-goats?
Can it be that, you who sit unbroken, stupid
for a hundred ( two hundred, perhaps?), none of you intend to think
while I alone have two hundred time oral than the loungers?
But you think: I will not draw your whole face on the tavern and with it a dick.
The girl is mine, flee that of my curve,
She shall love none so great as her love,
For i wage war for the fight of her greatness,
Sit down over there. All this love is good and happy,
And indeed, that is unworthy,
All the little trifles and footpaths of adulterers;
Besides you all only have one long hair,
Son of the Celtiberians who abound in rabbits, Egnati,
They make their dark beards
And rub their teeth with urine like the Hiberus.
Friday, February 13, 2009
Friday the 13th
Morning all! Today is Friday the 13Th and I'm sure you are all as excited as I am about the mayhem and chaos that will befall all of us today. So if you happen to be out and about today here are a few tips to stay in one piece:
- Avoid all jugglers. Weather they juggle balls or swords, all jugglers are bad news on Friday the 13Th.
- Stay clear of construction sites. I'm sure you all have seen the classic cartoon with the baby that wonders into a construction site and goes about climbing things and riding in lifts and walking on steal beams while his protector (aka a cat) chases after him and getting seriously injured. Well that baby must have been a demigod because construction sites will mess up. They also contain the very dangerous ladder and will most likely be plagued by black cats and fragile mirrors.
- And finally steer clear of all abandoned summer camps. These are breeding grounds for crazy machete wielding, masked serial killers. If you ever have the misfortune of being in an abandoned summer camp, especially one with a lake, don't panic. Simply get a road and begin walking. hopefully the killer will be more attracted to your idiot friends hiding in the run down cabin screaming their heads off, and will leave you be. Remember serial killers love riddles so if you come face to face with one, just distract them with a tough riddle and make your escape. They also love Peeps.
I hope these survival tips help with your journeys today, folks. And now I'm off to fish for Nessie. Until next time...
Catullus 64 Take Home Translation Test
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.
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.
Sunday, February 1, 2009
Catullus 64 1-40 Translation Test
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. And you examine the tedious luck abounding, Thetis height Peleus, which Jupiter now, then himself divine parent concealed love, which Thetis take the beautiful Nereine? Give up your Hold of the Tethys made to granddaughters, and the ocean, the whole sea which surrounds the world? Which one final option fears the coming light, the god who frequently went to Thessalioia, fill to gladden society: they made the first, they declared the glory of virtue. The deserted Ciero, lingering at the temple of Pthiotica Crannon and the home of Larisaea, spoke with Pharsalum, for Pharsalum frequented the place. The country had no honor, the bull’s neck became soft, no human had cleaned out the vines with a hoe, no bull had torn up the soil,
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