Translation:Catullus 58b

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Catullus 58b
by Catullus, translated from Latin by Wikisource

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"A loose fragment on the search for Camerius featured in poem 55 but in a high-flying style full of compounds...and mythological allusions. Though attempts have been made to splice it into 55, it is more like an outtake from the cutting room floor. The context that we must supply is a statement to Camerius that he is hard to find." (Garrison, 2004). Hendecasyllabics.

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Literal English Translation	Original Latin	Line
Since I’m not that bronze guardian of Crete, not Ladas or wing-footed Perseus, since I’m not carried by Pegasus in flight, nor by Rhesus’s swift snowy-white team, add to that feathered-feet and swiftness and the collective speed of the winds, Camerius you might have said who you were with: but I’d be weary right down to my marrow and devoured by excessive fatigue if I went on searching for you, my friend.	Nōn custos sī fingar ille Crētum, nōn Lādās ego pinnipesve Perseus, nōn sī Pēgaseō ferar volatū, nōn Rhēsī niveae citaeque bīgae; adde huc plumipedas volatilesque, ventōrumque simul requīre cursum, quōs iunctōs, Camerī, mihī dicāres: dēfessus tamen omnibus medullīs et multīs languōribus perēsus essem tē mihi, amīce, quaeritandō.	58b.1 58b.2 58b.3 58b.4 58b.5 58b.6 58b.7 58b.8 58b.9 58b.10

v t e AP Latin Syllabus
Virgil	Aeneid Book 1 (lines 1–578) Book 2 (lines 1–56, 199–297, 469–620, 735–804) Book 4 (lines 1–448, 642–705) Book 6 (lines 1–211, 295–332, 384–425, 450–476, 847–901) Book 10 (lines 420–509) Book 12 (lines 791–842, 887–952)
Catullus	1 2 3 4 5 (6) 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14a 16 (21) 22 30 31 (34) 35 36 39 40 43 44 45 46 49 50 51 52 53 56 58 60 62 64 65 68 69 70 72 73 75 76 77 79 81 83 84 85 86 87 92 93 94 96 101 107 109 116
Cicero	Pro Archia Poeta De Amicitia 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 100 101 102 103 104 Pro Caelio
Ovid	Daphne and Apollo Pyramus and Thisbe Daedalus and Icarus Baucis and Philemon Pygmalion Amores 1.1 (1.2) 1.3 (1.4) (1.5) (1.6) (1.7) 1.9 1.11 1.12 (1.14) (1.15) 3.15
Caesar	Gallic War 1.1–7 4.24–36 5.24–48 6.13–20