Catullus

Name: Catullus 64, lines 50–253
Author: Catullus

Catullus 64, lines 50–253

Summary

“Catullus 64, lines 50–253”, is a work by Catullus. It explores elements such as chest, waves and mind.

Quotes from Catullus 64, lines 50–253 (Catullus)

Catullus, Catullus 64, lines 50–253

“ Wherefore Eumenides, punishing the deeds of men with vengeful
penalty, for whom a forehead crowned with snaky hair
brings forth angers of the exhaling chest,
Here, here, come, listen to my complaints,
Which I, woe to unhappy (me) , impoverished, am compelled to
bring forth from the last marrows, raging, blind with insane fury.
Which since they are born true from the deepest chest,
You! Do not suffer our grief to vanish,
But with like what mind Theseus left me alone
With such a mind, goddesses, let he pollute with death himself and his own. ”

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Catullus, Catullus 64, lines 50–253

“ Not before she had turned her burning eyes from that one
she received a flame in the whole body
and whole blazed up utterly in the deepest marrows.
Alas stirring up the furies from the miserable one with cruel heart
sacred boy, you mix the cares (and) joys of men,
and you who rule Golgi and leafy Idalium,
with what kind of waves have you tossed the girl having been
inflamed in the mind, often sighing in the golden haired guest!
What great fears that one carried in the weak heart! ”

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Catullus, Catullus 64, lines 50–253

“ All which having slipped from the whole body here and there
the waves of salt were playing with before the feet of she herself.
But she caring for the plight neither then of the of the headdress
nor then of the floating cloak, she having been destroyed, was
depending on you Theseus out of her whole chest, whole spirit, whole mind.
Wretched one, whom the Erycinian maddened with constant griefs
sowing thorny cares in the chest,
in that age, out of which time bold Theseus
having set forth from the curved shores of Piraeus
touched the Gortynian temples of an unjust king. ”

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Catullus, Catullus 64, lines 50–253

“ Who flees bending his flexible oars in the sea?
Besides the lone island is nourished by no roof,
nor does an exit of the sea open with the waves girding.
No way of flight, no hope; all is quiet,
All are deserted, all things show death. ”

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Catullus, Catullus 64, lines 50–253

“ For (Ariadne) looking out from the wave-resounding shore of Dia,
she (Ariadne) sees Theseus withdrawing with the fast fleet,
Ariadne (who is) bearing uncontrollable furies in (her) heart
And not even yet does she believe that she sees what she sees,
Naturally since she who was at that point first roused from deceitful sleep
perceives that she herself was unhappy, deserted on a lonely beach.
But the unmindful youth fleeing strikes the shallows with oars,
leaving behind empty promises to the windy storm. ”

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Catullus, Catullus 64, lines 50–253

“ Was no thing able to turn the decision of the cruel
mind? Was there no clemency to you at hand,
Cruel one, so that the chest wishes to show compassion to us?
But you did not give these promises once to me with a soothing
voice, you were not ordering (me) miserable to hope for these things
but a happy marriage, but weddings having been wished for,
which all the airy winds tear to pieces.
Now now let now woman believe in a man pledging,
let not anyone hope the speakings of man to be faithful ”

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Catullus, Catullus 64, lines 50–253

“ I snatched away, and rather I decided to send away the brother
than to fail deceptive you in the final time.
For which I will be given to the beasts and birds to be torn apart
as prey, and dead having been tossed in the earth I will not be buried.
For what lioness gave birth to you under a lone crag,
What sea spit you having been conceived from foaming waves,
what Syrtis, what predator Scylla, what vast Carybdis (bore you) ,
you who return such reward for sweet life? ”

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Catullus, Catullus 64, lines 50–253

“ nunc iam nulla viro iuranti femina credat,
nulla viri speret sermones esse fideles;
quis dum aliquid cupiens animus praegestit apisci,
nil metuunt iurare, nihil promittere parcunt:
sed simul ac cupidae mentis satiata libido est,
dicta nihil metuere, nihil periuria curant. ”

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Catullus, Catullus 64, lines 50–253

“ Because if to you the sacred resident of Itonus,
who it is declared that protects our race and seats of Erectheus,
shall grant that you sprinkle the right hand with the blood of the bull,
then in truth make it that these orders thrive in the heart having
been founded in mindful you, nor let any time cause it to be forgotten ”

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