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A stirring collection of poems by Virgil, Ovid, Catullus and others,
about the eternal preoccupations of war, life and death, love and loss,
pleasures of the flesh, voyeurism, jealousy, adultery, and loneliness.
The book includes an introduction to the poets and translations of the
poems.
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'Silvis te, Tyrrhene, feras agitare putasti? Advenit qui vestra dies muliebribus armis verba redarguerit. Nomen tamen haud leve patrum manibus hoc referes, telo cecidisse Camillae.' 'Did you suppose you were hunting wild beasts in the forest, Trojan? The day has come for a female's prowess to prove your boasts to be false. The one consolation you will take to the spirits of your ancestors is the fame of falling beneath the spear of Camilla.' Virgil, Aeneid XI, 686-689 Heu,
cuculus nobis fuerat cantare suetus,
Carmina
post illum mittamus, carmina luctus,
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| 'Mourn the little cuckoo who liked to sing to us. What unspeakable
moment snatched you from your friends? Little cuckoo, little cuckoo, where
did I leave you? What a wretched day that was for us. Let us send songs
after him, songs of sadness, for songs bring a cuckoo back, they say. May
you always be happy, and wherever you go remember us, and always, everywhere,
take care.' Alcuin, from
Versus
de Cuculo
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Virgil, Catullus, Ovid, Horace,
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Book and cassette available from The Latin Qvarter, The Old Rectory, Twigworth, Gloucester GL2 9PQ, UK. Send a cheque payable to 'The Latin Qvarter'. (£5.99 book, £14 cassette, £19.99 for both) First published: 1998 by Multilingua
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