{"id":9377,"date":"2013-05-02T13:00:13","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T17:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/?p=9377"},"modified":"2013-05-02T13:12:02","modified_gmt":"2013-05-02T17:12:02","slug":"the-sacks-on-our-backs-catullus-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/2013\/05\/02\/the-sacks-on-our-backs-catullus-22\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sacks on Our Backs (Catullus 22)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/files\/2013\/05\/Cicak_Cat22_Latin112_2013.mp3\">Cicak_Cat22_Latin112_2013<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Catullus blends Aesopic fable with literary criticism and good old fashioned ridicule in poem 22, about the stylish but overly wordy poet Suffenus. Joelle Cicak argues that this many-sided poem must be understood in the context of the movement of &#8220;new poets&#8221; (<em>poetae novi<\/em>) of which Catullus was a part.\u00a0Catullus 22 discussed, translated, and read aloud by Joelle Cicak.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.loc.gov\/wiseguide\/jan06\/images\/rare-b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.loc.gov\/wiseguide\/jan06\/images\/rare-b.jpg\" width=\"175\" height=\"292\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Suffenus iste, Vare, quem probe nosti,<\/p>\n<p>homo est venustus et dicax et urbanus,<\/p>\n<p>idemque longe plurimos facit versus.<\/p>\n<p>Puto esse ego illi milia aut decem aut plura<\/p>\n<p>perscripta, nec sic ut fit in palimpsesto<\/p>\n<p>relata: cartae regiae, novi libri,<\/p>\n<p>novi umbilici, lora rubra membranae,<\/p>\n<p>derecta plumbo et pumice omnia aequata.<\/p>\n<p>Haec cum legas tu, bellus ille et urbanus<\/p>\n<p>Suffenus unus caprimulgus aut fossor<\/p>\n<p>rursus videtur: tantum abhorret ac mutat.<\/p>\n<p>Hoc quid putemus esse? Qui modo scurra<\/p>\n<p>aut si quid hac re scitius videbatur,<\/p>\n<p>idem infaceto est infacetior rure,<\/p>\n<p>simul po\u00ebmata attigit, neque idem umquam<\/p>\n<p>aeque est beatus ac po\u00ebma cum scribit:<\/p>\n<p>tam gaudet in se tamque se ipse miratur.<\/p>\n<p>Nimirum idem omnes fallimur, neque est quisquam<\/p>\n<p>quem non in aliqua re videre Suffenum<\/p>\n<p>possis. Suus cuique attributus est error;<\/p>\n<p>sed non videmus manticae quod in tergo est.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Image source:\u00a0http:\/\/www.loc.gov\/wiseguide\/jan06\/images\/rare-b.jpg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cicak_Cat22_Latin112_2013 Catullus blends Aesopic fable with literary criticism and good old fashioned ridicule in poem 22, about the stylish but overly wordy poet Suffenus. Joelle Cicak argues that this many-sided poem must be understood in the context of the movement of &#8220;new poets&#8221; (poetae novi) of which Catullus was a part.\u00a0Catullus 22 discussed, translated, and [&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-9377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9377","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=9377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}