Cuneta manus avidas fugient hæredis, amico Quæ dederis animo. Cum semel occideris, et de te splendida Minos Non, Torquate, genus, non te facundia, non te Infernis neque enim tenebris Diana pudicum Nec Lethæa valet Theseus abrumpere caro 20 25 Whate'er with lib'ral hand thy gen'rous bounty shares, Shall 'scape thy greedy heirs; 20 When thou shalt once have died, and Minos shall on thee Torquatus, not thy blood, thine eloquence, thy worth, To win Hippolytus from out that dark domain Chaste Dian strove in vain ; 25 Nor Theseus could from bonds of Lethe's slumb'rous wave His lov'd Pirithöus save. CATULLUS. Car. xxxi. AD SIRMIONEM PENINSULAM. PENINSULARUM, SIRMIO, insularumque Vix mî ipse credens Thyniam, atque Bithynos 5 Liquisse campos, et videre te in tuto. O quid solutis est beatius curis? Cum mens onus reponit, ac peregrino Labore fessi venimus larem ad nostrum, Desideratoque acquiescimus lecto. 10 CATULLUS. SIRMIO. SIRMIO, fair eye of all the laughing isles My own, my chosen Home! Oh, what more blest By cares abroad and foreign toil, we find Our native home again, and rest our head 5 10 Once more upon our own, long-lost, long-wished-for bed! |