C. Valerius Catullus, Carmen 64.202–214

Ariadne's speech ends and the narrative resumes. Jupiter responds to her appeal, the consequences reach Theseus aboard ship, and the narrator looks back to the departure from Athens and the words Aegeus had given his son.

 

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postquam Ariadna haec verba ē maestō pectore effūdit, et poenam prō saevīs factīs Thēseī petīvit, Iuppiter, rēx deōrum, eius precibus cōnsēnsit. tum terra tremuit. mare tremuit. mundus stellās commōvit.

sed Thēseus omnia oblītus est. mēns eius caeca erat, sīcut in tenebrīs. omnia praecepta patris suī, quae anteā tenēbat, ē memoriā dīmīsit. nōn igitur dulcia sīgna ad nāvem sustulit. nōn igitur patrī suō maestō ostendit sē tūtum ad domum venīre.

ōlim, cum Thēseus dē Athēnīs in nāvibus discēdēbat, Aegeus pater eius haec verba fīliō dīxit:

Original draft written by Robert Amstutz

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