{"id":9423,"date":"2013-05-03T06:19:34","date_gmt":"2013-05-03T10:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/?p=9423"},"modified":"2013-05-03T06:33:31","modified_gmt":"2013-05-03T10:33:31","slug":"its-just-another-delightfully-trivial-affair-catullus-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/2013\/05\/03\/its-just-another-delightfully-trivial-affair-catullus-3\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Just Another Delightfully Trivial Affair (Catullus 3)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/files\/2013\/05\/Schwartz_podcast_revised_Latin112_2013.mp3\">Schwartz_podcast_revised_Latin112_2013<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Catullus&#8217; lament on the death of his girlfriend&#8217;s pet sparrow is not serious, but playful, argues Alex Schwartz. The bird&#8217;s worth lies in its attractiveness and ability to provide pleasure, and the poem is an urbane assertion that these values are distinctly important in life. Catullus 3 discussed, translated, and read aloud by Alex Schwartz.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/italintheheart\/4427437652\/in\/photostream\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4038\/4427437652_4babd4dc28_b.jpg\" width=\"269\" height=\"368\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lugete, o Veneres Cupidinesque,<\/p>\n<p>et quantum est hominum venustiorum:<\/p>\n<p>passer mortuus est meae puellae,<\/p>\n<p>passer, deliciae meae puellae,<\/p>\n<p>quem plus illa oculis suis amabat-<\/p>\n<p>nam mellitus erat suamque norat<\/p>\n<p>ipsam tam bene quam puella matrem,<\/p>\n<p>nec sese a gremio illius movebat,<\/p>\n<p>sed circumsiliens modo huc modo illuc<\/p>\n<p>ad solam dominam usque pipiabat.<\/p>\n<p>qui nunc it per iter tenebricosum<\/p>\n<p>illuc, unde negant redire quemquam.<\/p>\n<p>At vobis male sit, malae tenebrae<\/p>\n<p>Orci, quae omnia bella devoratis:<\/p>\n<p>tam bellum mihi passerem abstulistis.<\/p>\n<p>O factum male! o miselle passer!<\/p>\n<p>Tua nunc opera meae puellae<\/p>\n<p>flendo turgiduli rubent ocelli.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Image:<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_7_3_3_1367576828093_1188\">Grave stele of a little girl, ca. 450\u2013440 BC,\u00a0Greek,\u00a0Parian marble H. 31 1\/2 in. (80 cm). Metropolitan Museum, New York. Photo: Jorge Elias, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/italintheheart\/4427437652\/in\/photostream\/\">flickr<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Schwartz_podcast_revised_Latin112_2013 Catullus&#8217; lament on the death of his girlfriend&#8217;s pet sparrow is not serious, but playful, argues Alex Schwartz. The bird&#8217;s worth lies in its attractiveness and ability to provide pleasure, and the poem is an urbane assertion that these values are distinctly important in life. Catullus 3 discussed, translated, and read aloud by Alex [&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-9423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9423","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=9423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}