"And summon homewards the mistress, eager for her new husband, firm-prisoning her soul in love; as tight-clasping ivy, wandering here and there, wraps the tree around."
— Gaius Valerius Catullus (c. 84 - c. 54 B.C.)
Work Title
Date
54 B.C.
Metaphor
"And summon homewards the mistress, eager for her new husband, firm-prisoning her soul in love; as tight-clasping ivy, wandering here and there, wraps the tree around."
Metaphor in Context
quare age huc aditum ferens
perge linquere Thespiae
rupis Aonios specus,
nympha quos super irrigat
frigerans Aganippe,
ac domum dominam voca
coniugis cupidam novi,
mentem amore revinciens
ut tenax hedera huc et huc
arborem implicat errans.
[So come then! convey your approach here, leaving the Aonian cave in cliffs of Thespiae, over which flows the chilling stream of Aganippe.
And summon homewards the mistress, eager for her new husband, firm-prisoning her soul in love; as tight-clasping ivy, wandering here and there, wraps the tree around.]
perge linquere Thespiae
rupis Aonios specus,
nympha quos super irrigat
frigerans Aganippe,
ac domum dominam voca
coniugis cupidam novi,
mentem amore revinciens
ut tenax hedera huc et huc
arborem implicat errans.
[So come then! convey your approach here, leaving the Aonian cave in cliffs of Thespiae, over which flows the chilling stream of Aganippe.
And summon homewards the mistress, eager for her new husband, firm-prisoning her soul in love; as tight-clasping ivy, wandering here and there, wraps the tree around.]
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Provenance
Searching "mind" at Perseus Digital Library
Citation
Text from Perseus Digital Library, which draws from E.T Merrill's 1893 edition of Catullus <Link>. Catullus. The Carmina of Gaius Valerius Catullus trans. Leonard C. Smithers (London: Smithers, 1894).
Date of Entry
05/18/2011
