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<p>Let’s translate the huge Catullus #64 together, i don’t know how many people are taking literature, but anyways:</p>
<p>50 This tapestry, having been decorated with the ancient figures of men
51 Shows with marvelous art the virtues of heroes
52 Now looking from the wave-resounding shore of Dia
53 Ariadne sees Theseus leaving with a swift ship
54 Wearing in her heart untamed furies
55 And not yet even believes that she sees that which she sees
56 Because having been excited from a treacherous sleep
57 Perceives herself deserted miserable in the lonely sand.
58 But the forgetful young man fleeing beats his oars in the waters of the sea
59 Leaving empty promises to the windy gale
60 Whom far away from the algae the daughter of Minos watches with sad little eyes
61 Like statues of stone of a maenad, alas!
62 She watches and seethes with great waves of anguished emotions
63 Not retaining the delicate headdress on her blond head
64 Not now covered with respect to her chest, previously covered with a light garment
65 Not now bound with respect to her milky-white breasts with a smooth twisted-band
66 All of which having slipped down from her whole body here and there
67 The waves of the sea were playing around before the feet of the mistress
68 But she, caring neither [what was happening to] the headdress nor what [was<br>
happening] to the floating garments
69 She was hanging from you, Theseus, with her whole heart,
70 With her whole soul, with her whole mind, despaired.
71 Ah, miserable [one], whom Erycina (Venus) put in a panic from constant sorrows
72 Sowing prickly cares in the heart
73 From that time when fierce Theseus
74 Having departed from the curved shores of Piraeus
75 Reached the Gortynian temple of the unjust king
76 For they say that once having been forced by a cruel pestilence
77 To pay the punishment for the slaughter of Androgeon
78 Cecropia was accustomed to give both chosen young men and the honor of maidens
79 As a sacrificial feast to the Minotaur
80 When the narrow walls were being vexed by these ills
81 Theseus chose to sacrifice his body voluntarily for dear Athens
82 Rather than that to Crete
83 Such corpses, not corpses, are carried from Cecropia
84 And in such a way pressing forward with smooth ship and smooth winds
85 He comes to the great-spirited Minos and his proud seats (home).</p>