Fresh Spring, already melodious Spring: the world is born in Spring

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by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

Translation © by Grant Hicks

ver novum, ver iam canorum, vere natus...

Language: Latin

Our translations: ENG

ver novum, ver iam canorum, vere natus orbis est ;
vere concordant amores, vere nubunt alites,
et nemus comam resolvit de maritis imbribus.
cras amorum copulatrix inter umbras arborum
implicat casas virentis de flagello myrteo,
cras Dione iura dicit fulta sublimi throno.

About the headline (FAQ)

Confirmed with Catullus, Tibullus, Pervigilium Veneris, Loeb Classical Library 6, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000, Pages 350-352.

Text Authorship:

by Anonymous / Unidentified Author, no title [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 George Lloyd (1913 - 1998), no title, 1978-80 [ soprano, tenor, chorus and orchestra ], from Pervigilium Veneris, no. 6 [sung text checked 1 time]

Research team for this page: Grant Hicks [Guest Editor] , Ferdinando Albeggiani

This text was added to the website: 2005-08-14
Line count: 6
Word count: 41

Fresh Spring, already melodious Spring:...

Language: English after the Latin

Fresh Spring, already melodious Spring: the world is born in Spring;
loves harmonize in Spring, birds wed in Spring,
and the forest lets down its hair beneath fertilizing showers.
Tomorrow the uniter of loves, among the shadows of the trees,
weaves verdant huts of myrtle branches,
tomorrow Dione declares the law, seated on her lofty throne.

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Note for line 6: Dione was the mother of the goddess Aphrodite, the Greek equivalent of Venus, but in Roman poetry her name was often used to refer to Venus/Aphrodite herself. That is the case here.

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Based on:

a text in Latin by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist , no title
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This text was added to the website: 2026-01-26
Line count: 6
Word count: 56