C. Valerius Catullus, Carmen 68.73–78
Catullus sets his beloved's arrival beside a story from the Trojan War: Laodamia, who came as a bride to the house of Protesilaus. The passage also calls on Nemesis, the maiden of Rhamnus.
Tier 1
sīc ōlim Lāodamīa ad domum Prōtesilāī vēnit: coniugem amābat et amōre ardēbat.
frūstrā domum incēpērunt: deī sanguinem sacrum nōndum accēperant.
ō Nemesis, nihil mihi tam placet quod deī nōn volunt. hoc audī!
Tier 2
Lāodamīa, flagrāns amōre coniugis, quondam ad domum Prōtesilāēam advēnit.
domus frūstrā incepta erat. hostia caelestis deōs sanguine sacrō nōndum pācificāverat.
Ramnūsia virgō, nīl mihi tam valdē placeat, quod temere invītīs dominīs suscipiātur.
Tier 3
ut quondam Lāodamīa advēnit Prōtesilāēam domum, flagrāns amōre coniugis, inceptam frūstrā,
nōndum hostia caelestis pācificāsset erōs cum sanguine sacrō.
Ramnūsia virgō, nīl placeat mihi tam valdē, quod temere suscipiātur invītīs erīs.
Tier 4 - Carmen Ipsum
- coniugis ut quondam flagrāns advēnit amōre
- Prōtesilāēam Lāodamīa domum
- inceptam frūstrā, nōndum cum sanguine sacrō
- hostia caelestis pācificāsset erōs.
- nīl mihi tam valdē placeat, Ramnūsia virgō,
- quod temere invītīs suscipiātur erīs.
Original draft written by Robert Amstutz
