Odi et amo. Quare id faciam, fortasse requiris? Nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior.
Three Latin Poems by Catullus
Song Cycle by Ronald A. Beckett
1. I hate and I love  [sung text checked 1 time]
Authorship:
- by Gaius Valerius Catullus (c84 BCE - 54 BCE), no title, appears in Carmina, no. 85
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- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Mario Rapisardi) , no title, first published 1889
- SPA Spanish (Español) (Saúl Botero Restrepo) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
2. Atalanta picks up the apples  [sung text checked 1 time]
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tam gratum est mihi quam ferunt puellae,
pernici aureolum fuisse malum,
quod zonam soluit diu ligitam.
Authorship:
- by Gaius Valerius Catullus (c84 BCE - 54 BCE), no title, appears in Carmina, no. 2
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- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Mario Rapisardi) , no title, first published 1889
1 Novák: "solaciolum"
2 Some text has been lost from the original here. Novák repeats this line and adds the first line again, as the last line of his setting.
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3. To Diana  [sung text checked 1 time]
O Latonia, maximi magna progenies Iovis, quam mater prope Deliam deposiuit olivam, montium domina ut fores silvarumque virentium saltuumque reconditorum amniumque sonantum. Dianae sumus in fide puellae et pueri integri: Dianam pueri integri puellaeque canamus.
Authorship:
- by Gaius Valerius Catullus (c84 BCE - 54 BCE)
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