C. Valerius Catullus, Carmen 68.41–50

The poem turns to a second subject, a friend named Allius, and Catullus calls on the Muses. A line of the poem is lost after line 46; the asterisks mark the gap.

 

Tier 1

tacēre nōn possum, ō deae.

 

Allius mē iūvit, et multa fēcit. tempus fugit; nox caeca studium eius tegere potest. id nōlō.

 

vōbīs dīcam, deae: vōs multīs hominibus dē Alliō dīcite!

 

ita hic liber vetus dē Alliō loquētur.

 

* * * * *

 

Allius, etiam mortuus, magis magisque nōtus erit. nōmen eius numquam dēsertum erit.

Original draft written by Robert Amstutz

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