Talk:The Poetry of Gaius Valerius Catullus/101

Catullus 101 authors and history

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= From Wikipedia:Talk:Catullus 101 =

Better translation
There is a more elegant translation:

By strangers' coasts and waters, many days at sea,

I came here for the rites of your unworlding,

Bringing for you, the dead, these last gifts of the living

And my words -- vain sounds for the man of dust.

Alas, my brother,

You have been taken from me. You have been taken from me

And by cold hands turned to shadow, and my pain.

Here are the foods of the old ceremony appointed

Long ago for the starvelings under the earth.

Take them. Your brother's tears have made them wet. And take

Into eternity my hail and my farewell.

Taken from a speech given by Chris Hedges. I am not sure how to include, could someone add it if appropriate. If it is also in Chris Hedges book "War is a force that gives us meaning", he might reference it.196.208.7.43 20:26, 30 December 2006 (UTC)


 * There is a danger that people's own translations are under copyright, so I'm not sure we're allowed to use it. But thankyou for telling us! Storeye 11:31, 14 May 2007 (UTC)