Gaius Valerius Catullus, Carmen 63.12-26

Attis addresses her fellow Gallae, the castrated priests of Cybele, urging them to rush together to the goddess's sacred Phrygian groves and join in her rites of ecstatic worship.

 

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o sacerdotes Cybeles (of Cybele), ite una ad altam silvam Cybeles,

 

una ite, o vaga turba dominae Dindymenae (Cybeles),

 

vos quae petitis aliena loca sicut vos estis exules

 

vos sequimini meam viam, dum ego duco, vos estis comites mihi

 

vos navigatis per rapidum mare et feroces fluctus maris

 

et vos secavistis membra a corporibus vestris quod Venus vobis non placet;

 

placete dominae, agite movete vos.

 

estote sine mora: ite una, ite ad Phrygiam domum Cybeles, ad silvas deae,

 

ubi cymbalum luditur, ubi tympana luduntur,

 

ubi Phrygius tibicen ludit instrumento suo,

 

ubi Maenades iaciunt capita,

 

ubi Maenades agunt sacra sancta clamoribus,

 

ubi illa turba deae solet volare,

 

quo bonum est nobis saltare ritum.'

Written by Robert Amstutz

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