Big Jon's Latin Assignment #2
This is the poem I went over with a Latin student last night. Catullus 22 has always been one of my favorites, especially for the lines derecta plumbo et pumice omnia aequata and sed non videmus manticae quod tergo est. Big Jon did such an outstanding job of translating last week that I'm asking him to come back and make a go of this one.
Suffenus iste, Vare, quem probe nosti,Thanks, Jon!
homo est venustus et dicax et urbanus,
idemque longe plurimos facit versus.
Puto esse ego illi milia aut decem aut plura
perscripta, nec sic ut fit in palimpsesto
relata: cartae regiae, novi libri,
novi umbilici, lora rubra, membranae,
derecta plumbo et pumice omnia aequata.
Haec cum legas tu, bellus ille et urbanus
suffenus unus caprimulgus aut fossor
rursus videtur: tantum abhorret ac mutat.
Hoc quid putemus esse? Qui modo scurra
aut si quid hac re scitius videbatur,
idem infaceto est infacetior rure,
simul poemata attigit, neque idem umquam
aeque est beatus ac poema cum scribit:
tam gaudet in se tamque se ipse miratur.
Nimirum idem omnes fallimur, neque est quisquam
quem non in aliqua re videre Suffenum
possis. Suus cuique attributus est error;
sed non videmus manticae quod tergo est.
posted by Quin Finnegan at 5:40 AM
2 Comments:
Suffused is my tea, very, quite penetrating of the nostrils
Men are from Venus and decisions are made in the city, ideally in a long, plurality of facile verses.
Put the essence of ego in the militia, albiet decimated, albiet
a persciption for disaster, a necessary one, unfit for related palimpest. Carry your Queen, she is a new book, a new birth,a lone rubric,a membrain, directed at the plumbing and pumice of all the waters.
Heck, with your legs you can make illegal war on the urbanites suffused under the Caprimongers albeit, Fosser vs Videtur:a tandem abhorrent and mutant.
A putrid ham hoc is a quid. Quasi Modo scurries for a quid's worth of ham hoc reinjuring Scitius Videbatur, in fact an item is infected with a rare simulated poets attitude, a neck item um...quam...antiques are beautiful
Running out of gas, you get the idea.
I do get the idea. It's great. The next assignment will be shorter, I promise.
Gratias Tibi!
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