Three Latin Poems by Catullus

Song Cycle by Ronald A. Beckett

Translated to:

English — Three Latin Poems by Catullus (Grant Hicks)

1. I hate and I love
 (Sung text)

Language: Latin 
Odi et amo. Quare id faciam, fortasse requiris?
Nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior.

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  • ENG English (Grant Hicks) , copyright © 2025, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , copyright © 2025, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • 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

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2. Atalanta picks up the apples
 (Sung text)

Language: Latin 
 ... 
...
Tam gratum est mihi quam ferunt puellae
pernici aureolum fuisse malum,
quod zonam soluit diu ligatam.

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  • ENG English (Grant Hicks) , copyright © 2025, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ITA Italian (Italiano) (Mario Rapisardi) , no title, first published 1889

Note: some text has been lost from the original as indicated by "[...]".

Note for the final line: Beckett's setting seems to use the spelling "ligitam" but this may be a typo.

Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Grant Hicks [Guest Editor]

3. To Diana
 (Sung text)

Language: Latin 
 ... 

O Latonia, maximi
magna progenies Jovis,
quam mater prope Deliam
deposivit olivam,

montium domina ut fores
silvarumque virentium
saltuumque reconditorum
amniumque sonantum.

Dianae sumus in fide
puellae et pueri integri:
dianam pueri integri
puellaeque canamus.

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Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Grant Hicks [Guest Editor]
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