Catullus+64.184-211


 * Catullus 64.184-211**

//Moreover this lonely island is inhabited by no home,//
 * 184 praeterea nullo colitur sola insula tecto,**

//nor is escape of the sea available with the waves encircling// - cingentibus undis - ablative absolute
 * 185 nec patet egressus pelagi cingentibus undis.**

//There is no means of escape, there is no hope: all (things) are silent//
 * nulla fugae ratio, nulla spes: omnia muta,**

//all are deserted, all (things) exhibit/point to death.//
 * omnia sunt deserta, ostentant omnia letum.**

//The eyes of me will not, however, grow weak with death//
 * non tamen ante mihi languescent lumina morte,**

//Nor will my senses withdraw from my tired body,//
 * nec prius a fesso secedent corpore sensus,**

//before I, betrayed, demand a just punishment from the gods// - tmesis - ante (188), prius (189), quam (190)
 * 190 quam iustam a divis exposcam prodita multam**

//and call upon the faith of the gods in my final hour.//
 * caelestumque fidem postrema comprecer hora.**

//Therefore Eumenides, punishing the deeds of men with avenging punishment,// - virum - virorum - Eumenides - euphemism for the Furies
 * quare facta virum multantes vindice poena**

//whose forehead, crowned with snaky hair,//
 * Eumenides, quibus anguino redimita capillo**

//carries forth the angers of a sighing chest,//
 * frons exspirantis praeportat pectoris iras,**

//here here come, hear my complaints,// - (Main verb of sentence are adventate and audite)
 * 195 huc huc adventate, meas audite querellas,**

//which I, alas miserable, am forced,//
 * quas ego, vae miserae, imis proferre medullis**

//helpless, burning, blind with insane fury, to bear forth from my innermost marrows.//
 * cogor inops, ardens, amenti caeca furore.**

Since, truly, these things which are complaints are born from the deepest heart
 * quae quoniam verae nascuntur pectore ab imo,**

do not allow our grief to vanish,
 * vos nolite pati nostrum vanescere lectum,**

but with what sort of mind Theseus has left me alone
 * 200 sed quali solam Theseus me mente reliquit,**

with such a mind, O goddesses, let him defile himself and his own (people).
 * tali mente, deae, funestet seque suosque.”**

After she poured forth these voices from a sad chest
 * has postquam maesto profundit pectore voces,**

demanding punishment, distressed by the savage deeds,
 * supplicium saevis exposcens anxia factis**,

the ruler nods with a resolute divine power of the heavens;
 * annuit invicto caelestum numine rector;**

with which movement the earth and the ruffled seas trembled
 * 205 quo motu tellus atque horrida contremuerunt**

and the heavens shook violently the flickering stars.
 * aequora concussitque micantia sidera mundus.**

Theseus himself, however, having been sown/beset with respect to his mind
 * ipse autem caeca mentem caligine Theseus**

with blind darkness, sent away from his forgetful heart all
 * consitus oblito dimisit pectore cuncta**

the orders which he was previously holding in his steady mind,
 * quae mandata prius constanti mente tenebat,**

and, not lifting the sweet signs for his sad parent,
 * 210 dulcia nec maesto sustollens signa parenti**

he did not show himself to visit the Erecthian/Athenian port safe.
 * sospitem Erectheum se ostendit visere portum.**