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Main  ::  Translations - per Carmen  ::  Uncategorized  ::  Catullus poem based on a Sappho poem...

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thechandra
Posted on Wed Sep 15, 2004 22:14:52  
I seem to have memory of a Catullus poem based on a Sappho poem that has a line something like "in the hills and valleys of her body I saw whole cities and civilisations". It could be I misremembered 51 or does it exist somewhere?
Guest
Posted at Sun Oct 17, 2004 12:04:00  Quote
Poems IX and LI are the Catullus poems written in Sapphic Metre.
Guest
Posted at Sun Oct 31, 2004 02:38:05  Quote
That's XI rather.
thechandra
Posted at Sun Oct 31, 2004 13:23:56  Quote
oh good - it is my own line
K.C.
Posted at Fri Dec 10, 2004 21:46:34  Quote
Though Carmen 11 and 51 are both in Sapphics, (which are, incredibly, based at least in part on poems by Sappho), they are not the only poems in the collection bases on Sappho's!
As for the original question, I suspect that translation was a bit of poetic liscence on the part of the translator, I've never come up against it (unless its in the epic, which I haven't got around to translating).
Non cogito ergo non sumus.
 


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