Catullus

Catullus

Summary

Portrait of Catullus Catullus,  Catullus 4

“ Cytorus,
with its chattering leaves it often gave out a whistling sound.
O Pontic Amastris and boxwood-bearing Cytorus
that to you these things were and are most well known,
says the boat: from its earliest beginning
it says that it has stood on your peak
it has dipped its little oars in your water
and thence through so many unruly seas
it carried its master, whether a left or a right breeze
would call, or a favorable wind (Jupiter) fell
on each sheet at the same time
”
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