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Lesson 4: Comparing texts and translations: Poetry (a)
Catullus 61: 1-15
Collis o Heliconii
cultor, Vraniae genus,
qui rapis teneram ad uirum
uirginem, o Hymenaee Hymen,
5o Hymen Hymenaee,
cinge tempora floribus
suaue olentis amaraci,
flammeum cape laetus, huc
huc ueni, niueo gerens
10luteum pede soccum;
excitusque hilari die,
nuptialia concinens
uoce carmina tinnula,
pelle humum pedibus, manu
15pineam quate taedam.