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| Author | Message | | | Posted on Wed Oct 26, 2011 01:37:23 | |
| | I have lost two friends in the last 12 days.
This is dedicated to them,
Prichard Pollett
and
Hiroki Ainai.
Carmina CI
I have rallied through the many countries and challenged many seas
To be here, O my brother, at these sad obsequies,
and present you with this last guerdi'on of death,
to say, though in vain, these few words to your mute ash,
as Fortuna has taken your living flesh from me
alas, my own brother, so cruelly burned from the earth.
So now, dearest brother, dearest ash, take these offerings from my eyes,
which by the custom of our forefathers
have been handed down -- take, these sorrowful tributes -- these wet sacrifices;
take them, take them ash, my brother, wet these many tears,
and then, I say to the sky as my own soul:
Comrade. Hail. And Farewell.
(CC) NC-A-SA Benjamin George Griffin 2011
I think it's obscene to put a copyright on the translation of a funerary poem, and even worse to advertise such an insult the internet. You know who you are. Your latin must be sh!t or non exThe Death of a Violinististant. For eveyone else, please consider this (CC) Non Commercial, Attribution, Share Alike by Benjamin George Griffin (2011) (c.f. Death of a Violinist - http://bengriffin.me/ ... http://bengriffin.me/2011/10/08/the-death-of-a-violinist/) id est (i.e.) please share and sharealike for all non-commercial purposes, I ask only that you reference me as the translator.
Much thanks to this translation (http://www.vroma.org/~hwalker/VRomaCatullus/101.html) by Mr. H. Walker, who did a capable job of rendering the grandeur and passion of the original Latin (which is stull far and away the best way of reading this glorious piece of latin literature) | |  | Yours,
Benjamin G. Griffin
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| | | Posted at Sun Jan 15, 2012 12:16:50 | Quote |
| | I was a bit excited before ... my apologies ... artistic temprement.
This is what I untimately read/performed.
Carmen 101
I have rallied through the many countries and challenged many seas
To be here, O my Brother, and make these miserable rites.
I present you with this last guerdi’on of death,
and say, though in vain, these few words to your mute ashes.
Fortune has taken your living flesh from me
So cruelly have you been burned from the earth–
Dearest brother of mine, take these offerings from my eyes,
recieve this ceremony, this rite, which by the custom of our forefathers
has been handed down –
take, these sorrowful tributes –
take these wet sacrifices
and let me see you in these ashes damp from my many tears.
I say to you and the sea and the sky as if to my own soul, this:
Comrade. Hail. And Farewell.
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