Gaius Valerius Catullus, Carmina (ed. Sir Richard Francis Burton)
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AN INVITATION TO POET CECILIUSNow to that tender bard, my Comrade fair,
(Cecilius) say I, " Paper go, declare,
Verona must we make and bid to New
Comum's town-walls and Larian Shores adieu;"
[5] For I determined certain fancies he
Accept from mutual friend to him and me.
Wherefore he will, if wise, devour the way,
Though the blonde damsel thousand times essay
Recall his going and with arms a-neck
[10] A-winding would e'er seek his course to check;
A girl who (if the truth be truly told)
Dies of a hopeless passion uncontroul'd;
For since the doings of the DĂndymus-dame,
By himself storied, she hath read, a flame
Wasting her inmost marrow-core hath burned.
[15] I pardon thee, than Sapphic Muse more learn'd,
Damsel : for truly sung in sweetest lays
Was by Cecilius Magna Mater's praise.
There are a total of 45 comments on and cross references to this page.
Further comments from E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus:
poem 35 (general note)
poem 35, line 1: tenero
poem 35, line 1: sodali
poem 35, line 10: roget morari
poem 35, line 12: illum deperit
poem 35, line 12: impotente
poem 35, line 13: quo tempore
poem 35, line 13: legit
poem 35, line 14: Dindymi dominam
poem 35, line 14: misellae
poem 35, line 15: ignes
poem 35, line 15: interiorem
poem 35, line 15: medullam
poem 35, line 16: ignosco tibi
poem 35, line 16: Sapphica musa
poem 35, line 17: doctior
poem 35, line 18: magna Mater
poem 35, line 18: incohata
poem 35, line 2: Caecilio
poem 35, line 2: papyre
poem 35, line 3: relinquens
poem 35, line 4: Comi
poem 35, line 5: cogitationes
poem 35, line 6: amici sui meique
poem 35, line 7: viam vorabit
poem 35, line 8: candida
Cross references from E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus:
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*: quo tempore ... ex eo
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*: interiorem medullam
*: edunt
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*: candida puella
Cross references from George W. Mooney, Commentary on Apollonius: Argonautica:
* [Commentary]: quo tempore .. ex eo
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This text is based on the following book(s): Catullus. Carmina. Sir Richard Francis Burton. trans. London. For translator for private use. 1894. OCLC: 878062
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