Catullus+64.105-131


 * Catullus 64.105-131**

//For just as the unrestrained whirlwind, wrenching the oak with a gust,//
 * 105 nam velut in summo quatientem brachia Tauro**

//uproots an oak shaking its branches on the top of Mt. Taurus//
 * quercum aut conigeram sudanti cortice pinum**

//or a pine-bearing pine tree with its sweating bark//
 * indomitus turbo contorquens flamine robur**

//(it, removed far off from its roots//
 * eruit (illa procul radicitus exturbata**

//falls prone/face down, widely breaking whatever it meets/in in its path)//,
 * prona cadit, late quaeviscumque obvia frangens),**

//Thus Theseus laid low the savage monster with its body having been overcome,//
 * 110 sic domito saevum prostravit corpore Theseus**

//tossing its horns// //about// //to the empty winds in vain.//
 * nequiquam vanis iactantem cornua ventis.**

//From there, safe and sound, he turned back his foot with much praise//
 * inde pedem sospes multa cum laude reflexit**

//ruling the wandering traces with a slender thread,//
 * errabunda regens tenui vestigia filo,**

//so that the untraceable error/maze would not decieve him//
 * ne labyrintheis e flexibus egredientem**

//leaving behind the turnings of the maze.//
 * 115 tecti frustraretur inobservabilis error.**

//But why having deviated from the first song should i recount more//
 * sed quid ego a primo digressus carmine plura**

//how the daughter leaving the sight of the father behind//
 * commemorem, ut linquens genitoris filia vultum,**

//how the daughter leaving behind the embrace of her sister, how leaving behind finally the embrace of her mother//
 * ut consanguineae complexum, ut denique matris,**

//who utterly hopeless was rejoicing in the wretched daughter// - proleptic
 * quae misera in gnata deperdita laeta ,**

//how she chose the sweet love of Theseus before all these//
 * 120 omnibus his Thesei dulcem praeoptarit amorem;**

//or how she, carried by a boat, came to the foamy beach of Dia//
 * aut ut vecta rati spumosa ad liitora Diae**

//or how the spouse left her behind, bound with respect to eyes by sleep,//
 *  aut ut eam devinctam lumina somno**

//departing with a forgetful heart?//
 * liquerit immemori discedens pectore coniunx?**

//Often they relate that she had poured shrill voices//
 * saepe illam perhibent ardenti corde furentem**

//from the depths of her heart, raging with burning heart,//
 * 125 clarisonas imo fudisse e pectore voces,**

//and then she climbed up sadly the steep mountains//
 * ac tum praeruptos tristem conscendere montes,**

//from where she streched out her gaze on the vast swellings of the sea//
 * unde aciem  pelagi vastos protenderet aestus,**

//then she was running forward into the facing waves of trembling salt//
 * tum tremuli salis adversas procurrere in undas**

//lifting her soft coverings of her bared calf// - proleptic
 * mollia nudatae tollentem tegmina surae,**

//and that she sadly said these things in final laments//
 * 130 atque haec extremis maestam dixisse querellis,**

//producing chilly sobs from her wet mouth.//
 * frigidulos udo singultus ore cientem:**