Catullus 3
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'''Catullus 3''' is a sequel to [[Catullus 2]] written to honor the passing of a much-loved pet bird of the poet's girlfriend. The tone is mock-serious but also warm and affectionate, conveying the poet's regard for his girlfriend and even her pet. The poem seems timeless, perhaps because it describes something so common to human experience.
This poem was once thought to form a single poem with [[Catullus 2]], but was separated just before 1500 by Marcantonio Sabellico.
The [[meter (poetry)|meter]] of this poem is [[hendecasyllabic verse|hendecasyllabic]], a common form in Catullus' poetry. The last feet are [[spondee| spondees]], which makes it "Phalaecean" hendecasyllabic.
==Latin text and translation==
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| Lūgēte, ō Venerēs Cupīdinēsque,
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| 2
| et quantum est hominum venustiōrum:
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| 3
| passer mortuus est meae puellae,
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| 4
| passer, dēliciae meae puellae,
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| 5
| quem plūs illa oculīs suīs amābat.
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| 6
| nam mellītus erat suamque nōrat
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| 7
| ipsam tam bene quam puella mātrem,
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| 8
| nec sēsē ā gremiō illius movēbat,
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| 9
| sed circumsiliēns modo hūc modo illūc
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| 10
| ad solam dominam usque pīpiābat.
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| 11
| quī nunc it per iter tenebricōsum
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| 12
| illūc, unde negant redīre quemquam.
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| 13
| at vōbīs male sit, malae tenebrae
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| 14
| Orcī, quae omnia bella dēvorātis:
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| 15
| tam bellum mihi passerem abstulistis
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| 16
| Ō factum male! Iō miselle passer!
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| 17
| tuā nunc operā meae puellae
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| 18
| flendō turgidulī rubent ocellī.
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==Bibliography==
{{Wikisourcelang|la|Catullus 3|Catullus 3}}
{{Wikisourcelang|en|Catullus 3|Catullus 3}}
* {{cite journal | last = Elerick | first = C. | year = 1993 | title = On Translating Catullus 3 | journal = Scholia | volume = 2 | pages = 90–96}}
* {{cite journal | last = Jocelyn | first = HD. | year = 1980 | title = On Some Unnecessarily Indecent Interpretations of Catullus 2 and 3 | journal = American Journal of Philology | volume = 101 | pages = 421–441 | doi = 10.2307/293667}}
* {{cite journal | last = Akbar Khan | first = H. | year = 1967 | title = A Note on the Expression solum...nosse in Catullus | journal = Classical Philology | volume = 62 | pages = 34–36 | doi = 10.1086/365186}}
==External links==
*[http://rudy.negenborn.net/catullus/text2/e3.htm Catullus 3] Translation of Catullus 3
*[http://www.vroma.org/~hwalker/VRomaCatullus/003.html Catullus 3] Another translation of Catullus 3
*[http://youtube.com/watch?v=rxFGKDE0bXI Catullus 3 recited] Video
[[Category:Poetry by Catullus|C003]]
*[http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18958585 Interview] with [[Jeffrey Eugenides]] on his book of bittersweet love-stories, ''My Mistress's Sparrow is Dead''
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