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Catullus 9 is an untitled Poem by the Roman poet Catullus . LATIN TEXT :Verani, omnibus e meis amicis :antistans mihi millibus trecentis, :venistine domum ad tuos penates :fratresque unanimos anumque matrem? :Venisti. O mihi nuntii beati! :Visam te incolumem audiamque Hiberum :narrantem loca, facta, nationes, :ut mos est tuus applicansque collum :iucundum os oculosque suaviabor? :O quantum est hominum beatiorem, :quid me laetius est beatiusvne? ENGLISH TRANSLATION Veranius exelling all of my friends by 300,000/ have you come home to your houshold gods and your loving brothers and old mother?/ You have come! oh happy news for me!/ I shall see you returned unharmed and hear you narrating of the places, deeds and tribes of the Spanish as is your custom,/ and embracing your pleasant neck I will kiss your mouh and eyes./ However much there is of happy people who is happier than me?/ METER/SCANSION The meter is hendecasyllabic. GENERAL COMMENTS Note the two tricolon crescendos in this poem; "your household gods...old mother" and "places...tribes" - these are particularly Alexandrian aspects of Catullus' poetry. This poem also expresses Catullus' Epicurean ideal through his friendship with Veranius. SEE ALSO SOURCES http://rudy.negenborn.net/catullus/text2/l9.htm |
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