![]() ![]() e fat rich fertile poetic accusative plural modifying mensas. 17) betrays the impatience of the youths and quickens the rhythmic pace. ere, surrexi, surrectum rise get up arise spring up infinitive after tempus. ere, sustuli, sublatum lift raise the subject is Vesper. (1) wait for expect hope for modifies lumina. Click on SPQR for a view of Mount Olympus at sunset. Mount Olympus, home of the Olympian gods heaven sky a locative ablative. 3), probably at the house of the bride's family. The young men are urged to rise from their couches, where they have been dining (see l. ere, -surrexi, -surrectum rise spring up start present active imperative, 2nd person plural. young man youth the term could also refer to young woman, but not here. 5 as an imperative, in direct address to the god, and in the recurring refrain. 5, 10, 19, 25, 31, 38, 48, 66), as sunset was the traditional time for weddings. His presence is invoked in the refrain that recurs throughout the poem (see ll. In Greek myth the god of the evening star was Hesperos, son of Eos, the goddess of the dawn. Vesper is the Latin name given to the planet Venus, the first celestial body to become visible as the sky darkens. We use the terms with which the singers refer to themselves: Iuvenes and Innuptae. Not all texts identify the speakers of the stanzas those that do variously use pueri and virgines/puellae. Introduction in 3 stanzas: Youths sing lines 1-5 Maidens sing lines 6-10 Youths sing lines 11-19Ĭontest in 6 stanzas: Maidens sing lines 20-25 Youths sing lines 26-31 Maidens sing lines 32-? Youths sing lines 33-38 Maidens sing lines 39-48 Youths sing lines 49-58Ĭoda in 1 stanza: Poet/Youths sing the final lines 59-66. Although the stanzas are sung responsively, it is thought that the youths open the poem and either they or the poet sing the final lines addressed to the bride, victoriously announcing her appearance for the deductio to the groom's home: Catullus 62 consists of alternating choral stanzas, unequal in length due to the loss of verses. ![]() The poem is in the form of an antiphonal singing contest that was perhaps a feature of Greek weddings, the carmen amoebaeum, which first appeared in Theocritus' bucolic poetry (see Idylls 6 and 8) and later in Virgil's Eclogues 3 and 7. Notes to Catullus 62 Notes to Catullus, Carmen 62 ![]()
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