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Catullus 11

Catullus asks two travel companions to deliver an invective against Lesbia.

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Furi et Aureli, comites Catulli,
sive in extremos penetrabit Indos,
litus ut longe resonante Eoa
..........tunditur unda,

sive in Hyrcanos Arabasve molles,..................5
seu Sagas sagittiferosve Parthos,
sive quae septemgeminus colorat
..........aequora Nilus,

sive trans altas gradietur Alpes,
Caesaris visens monimenta magni,..................10
Gallicum Rhenum horribile aequor ulti-
..........mosque Britannos,

omnia haec, quaecumque feret voluntas
caelitum, temptare simul parati,
pauca nuntiate meae puellae...........................15
..........non bona dicta.

cum suis vivat valeatque moechis,
quos simul complexa tenet trecentos,
nullum amans vere, sed identidem omnium
..........ilia rumpens:.........................................20

nec meum respectet, ut ante, amorem,
qui illius culpa cecidit velut prati
ultimi flos, praetereunte postquam
..........tactus aratro est.

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Meter: sapphic strophe.
3. resonante, Eoa: modify unda.
ut: Locative use, i.e., "where"
7. quae: neuter plural, with aequora as antecedent.
13. quaecumque: Accusative neuter plural.
14. parati: modifies Furi et Aureli.
16. non bona dicta: litotes.
19. amans and rumpens (line 20): present participles.
22. qui: has amorem as its antecedent, the subject of cecidit.
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