[Ameana]1 puella defututa
Tota milia me decem poposcit,
Ista turpiculo puella naso,
Decoctoris amica Formiani.
Propinqui, quibus est puella curae,
Amicos medicosque conuocate:
Non est sana puella, nec rogare
Qualis sit [solet aes imaginosum]2.

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¹ Orff: "Ammiana"
² Orff: "solide est imaginosa"

Text Authorship:

• by Gaius Valerius Catullus (c84 BCE - 54 BCE), no title, appears in Carmina, no. 41 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

• by Carl Orff (1895 - 1982), "[X]. Ammiana, puella defututa", 1940-43, published 1943, from cantata Catulli Carmina, no. 11 [sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

• 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

Researcher for this page: Saúl Botero Restrepo

This text was added to the website: 2015-10-07
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