{"id":9302,"date":"2012-05-17T11:54:06","date_gmt":"2012-05-17T15:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/?p=9302"},"modified":"2012-05-17T14:12:57","modified_gmt":"2012-05-17T18:12:57","slug":"perilous-leisure-catullus-51","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/2012\/05\/17\/perilous-leisure-catullus-51\/","title":{"rendered":"Perilous leisure (Catullus 51)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/files\/2012\/05\/Jeschke-Catullus-51.mp3\">Jeschke Catullus 51<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A common Roman view was that leisure (<em>otium<\/em>) made men debauched and effiminate, says Lauren Jeschke, and that was not at all the image Catullus wanted to convey when he was wooing Clodia with this poem translated from Sappho. This makes the last, extra stanza he added connect with Sappho&#8217;s original Greek. Catullus 51, read, translated, and discussed by <strong>Lauren Jeschke<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Ille mi par esse deo videtur,<br \/>\nille, si fas est, superare divos,<br \/>\nqui sedens adversus identidem te<br \/>\nspectat et audit<\/p>\n<p>dulce ridentem, misero quod omnes 5<br \/>\neripit sensus mihi: nam simul te,<br \/>\nLesbia, aspexi, nihil est super mi<br \/>\n&lt;vocis in ore;&gt;<\/p>\n<p>lingua sed torpet, tenuis sub artus<br \/>\nflamma demanat, sonitu suopte 10<br \/>\ntintinant aures geminae, teguntur<br \/>\nlumina nocte.<\/p>\n<p>otium, Catulle, tibi molestumst:<br \/>\notio exsultas nimiumque gestis:<br \/>\notium et reges prius et beatas 15<br \/>\nperdidit urbes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/files\/2012\/05\/Jeschke-Catullus-51-image-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9304\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/files\/2012\/05\/Jeschke-Catullus-51-image-1-300x237.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/files\/2012\/05\/Jeschke-Catullus-51-image-1-300x237.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/files\/2012\/05\/Jeschke-Catullus-51-image-1.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/files\/2012\/05\/Jeschke-Catullus-51-image-2.sappho.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9305\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/files\/2012\/05\/Jeschke-Catullus-51-image-2.sappho-250x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/files\/2012\/05\/Jeschke-Catullus-51-image-2.sappho-250x300.jpg 250w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/files\/2012\/05\/Jeschke-Catullus-51-image-2.sappho.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeschke Catullus 51 A common Roman view was that leisure (otium) made men debauched and effiminate, says Lauren Jeschke, and that was not at all the image Catullus wanted to convey when he was wooing Clodia with this poem translated from Sappho. This makes the last, extra stanza he added connect with Sappho&#8217;s original Greek. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}