Gaius Valerius Catullus, Carmen 63.84-93

Cybele's lion drives Attis back into the wilderness in a renewed frenzy, where they remain a servant of the goddess for the rest of their life. Catullus closes the poem with a prayer that the goddess never turn such anger upon him.

 

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periculosa Cybele ait haec et solvit leonem.

 

leo ipse adhortans sese incitat celeriter,

 

currit, clamat, frangit silvam.

 

sed cum leo adiit umida loca albi litoris, et vidit teneram Attin prope mare, leo Attin petit.

 

Attis insanus fugit in silvam feram;

 

in silva Attis semper ancilla fuit per totam vitam suam.

 

o dea, magna dea, Cybele, domina dea Dindymi,

 

domina, tu sis numquam irata ad me:

 

age alios insanos, age alios rabidos.

Written by Robert Amstutz

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