Homecoming

June 5, 692

Sorry I haven't posted anything for awhile but I was out on a boating trip. It was pretty cool. I went to Bithynia and it was so sweet. And when I got back Lesbia was waiting with all my friends for a welcome home party. I'm still recovering from that one. And on the way back I wrote this.

de phasello

PHASELVS ille, quem uidetis, hospites,
ait fuisse nauium celerrimus,
neque ullius natantis impetum trabis
nequisse praeterire, siue palmulis
opus foret uolare siue linteo.
et hoc negat minacis Hadriatici
negare litus insulasue Cycladas
Rhodumque nobilem horridamque Thraciam
Propontida trucemue Ponticum sinum,
ubi iste post phaselus antea fuit
comata silua; nam Cytorio in iugo
loquente saepe sibilum edidit coma.
Amastri Pontica et Cytore buxifer,
tibi haec fuisse et esse cognitissima
ait phaselus: ultima ex origine
tuo stetisse dicit in cacumine,
tuo imbuisse palmulas in aequore,
et inde tot per impotentia freta
erum tulisse, laeua siue dextera
uocaret aura, siue utrumque Iuppiter
simul secundus incidisset in pedem;
neque ulla uota litoralibus deis
sibi esse facta, cum ueniret a mari
nouissimo hunc ad usque limpidum lacum.
sed haec prius fuere: nunc recondita
senet quiete seque dedicat tibi,
gemelle Castor et gemelle Castoris.

It seems that ship, stranger,
which was the swiftest vessel,
and no attack from any floating vessel is able to get through,
weather the work might fly from the oars or the sails.
And this denied that menacing Adriatic
Was not the shore of the island of Cyclades
And noble Rhodes and the wild Thrace
And the sea of Marmora to without the peace of the Black Sea
(when before this was a future vessel it was a leafy forest—
For Mt. Cytorius in joining
Spoke often of the rustling of leaves).
Amastrius on the Black Sea and Mt. Cytorius producing box-wood,
Which has been and is known to this ship,
Made from the final origin you set up in the peak,
He drenched his palm in the sea;
And from that point on the sea boiled up for he was wild
He called the wind weather left or right,
Or weather Jupiter and at the same time the second occurred in the corner;
And not any avoided the shore where the god himself did the deed,
When he comes to the sea
The last which was this constantly clear lake.
But that before fled; now recognized
The old repose and he dedicated this,
The twin Castor and the twin Pollux.

I'm thinking that its gonna get pretty serious with Lesbia and I but you never know what the future holds.

Catullus out...