Catullus 11

1. Fūrī et Aurēlī, comitēs Catullī,

2. sive in extrēmōs penetrābit Indōs,

3. lītus ut longē resonante Eōā

4. tunditur undā,

Furious and Aurelius, friends of Catullus, Whether he will go into the distant Indians where the shore is pounded far and wide by the resounding Eastern Waves,

5. sive in Hyrcānōs Arabasve mollēs,

6. seu Sagās sagittiferōsve Parthōs,

7. sive quae septemgeminus colōrat

8. aequora Nilus,

Or into the Hyricani, or the soft delicate Arabs, or into the Scythians, or the arrow-bearing Parthians, or the seas which the seven throated Nile covers,

9. sive trāns altās gradiētur Alpēs,

10. Caesaris visēns monimenta magnī,

11. Gallicum Rhēnum horribile aequor ulti-

12. mōsque Britannōs,

Whether crossing the Alps, seeing the monuments of great Caesar, the Gallic Rhine, the horrible sea, or the distant Britains,

13. omnia haec, quaecumque feret voluntās

14. caelitum, temptāre simul parāti

15. pauca nūntiāte meae puellae

16. nōn bona dicta.

All of these places, whatever the will of the gods will bring, prepared to try all these things at the same time, announce a few not good words to my girl,

17. Cum suis vīvat valeatque moechīs,

18. quōs simul complexa tenet trecentōs,

19. nūllum amāns vērē, sed identidem omnium

20. īlia rumpēns;

May she live and may she fare well with her adulterers, whom she holds having embraced 300 at the same time, loving none of them truly, but breaking all the male organs again and again;

21. nec meum respectet, ut ante, amōrem,

22. quī illius culpā cecidit velut prātī

23. ultimī flōs, praetereunte postquam

24. tāctus arātrō est.

Don’t let her look back at my love as before, which by her fault fell, like a flower of the farthest meadow, after it was touched by a plow passing by.

3 Present active participles

• visens —» going and looking at

• amans —» loving

• ruptens —» breaking

Relative pronouns with case, gender, number, and antecedent

• quae: feminine, plural, accusative —» aequora (sea)

• quos: masculine, plural, accusative —» moechis (adulterers)

Nouns in the ablative

• Eoa unda —» Eastern waves

• culpa —» her fault

• aratro —» plow

Noun in the Dative which is an indirect object

puellae —» girl

Jussive subjunctives

• vivat —» let her live

• valeatque —» let her fare well

An imperative

nuntiate —» announce

Verbs in the future indicative

• feret —» will bring

• penetrabit —» will go into

Perfect passive participle

• parati —» prepared

• dicta —» words

Nouns in the vocative

• Furi

• Aureli

Conjugated deponent verbs

• complexa —» having embraced

• gradietur —» go into

Noun adjective agreement

• extremos Indos —» distant Indians

• Eoa unda —» Eastern waves

• unda resonante —» resounding waves

• Arabasve molles —» soft delicate Arabs

• sagittiferosve Parthos —» arrow-bearing Parthians

• horribile aequora —» horrible sea

• ultimosque Britanna —» distant Britains

• meat puellae —» my girl

Homoioteleton

Furi et Aureli comites Catulli

Polysyndeton

sive/seu —» and/whether (stanza 1-3)

Chiasmus

Arabasve (A,noun) molles (B,adjective) … sagittiferosve (B) Parthos (A)

Synchesis

Gallium (adj) Rhenum (noun) horribile (adj) aequora (noun) ultimmosque (adj) Britannos (noun)

Litotes

non bona dicta —» not good words

Alliteration

seu sagas sagittiferosve Parthos

Anaphora

sive

Simile

velut —» just as (lines 21-24)

Assonance

litus ut longe resonate Eoa // tunditur unda

What is the grammatical form of resonance, and what does it modify?

present active participle, unda

What is the case and use of unda?

ablative of means

What does the “-ve” on the end of Arabas mean?

“or”

What is the antecedent of quae?

aequora

What is the mood and tense of gradietur?

future indicative

What word does magni modify?

Caesaris

What is the tense, voice, and number of parati, and what does it modify?

perfect passive plural, Furi et Aureli

What is the mood and number of nuntiate?

imperfect plural

What is the case and use of puella?

dative - indirect object

What is the mood, tense, and use of vivat?

present jussive subjunctive

What is the antecedent of qui?

amorem

What is the case and use of culpa?

ablative of means

To whom does illius refer?

Lesbia