{"id":9528,"date":"2015-05-12T12:02:14","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T16:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/?p=9528"},"modified":"2015-05-12T12:02:51","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T16:02:51","slug":"catullus-87","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/2015\/05\/12\/catullus-87\/","title":{"rendered":"A Unique Bond (Catullus 87)"},"content":{"rendered":"<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-9528-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/files\/2015\/05\/Wood_catullus-87.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/files\/2015\/05\/Wood_catullus-87.mp3\">http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/files\/2015\/05\/Wood_catullus-87.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>Catullus\u00a0uses some rather un-romantic words (<em>foedus<\/em>, <em>fides<\/em>) in this intense love poem to his mistress Lesbia, argues <strong>Joanna Wood<\/strong>.\u00a0He speaks\u00a0as if in rejecting him Lesbia\u00a0is breaking an important Roman social code.\u00a0This poem has an intense tone, she says.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.britishmuseum.org\/2012\/04\/20\/meeting-the-romans-at-the-british-museum-2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-9530\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/files\/2015\/05\/Wood-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Wood\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/files\/2015\/05\/Wood-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/files\/2015\/05\/Wood.jpg 544w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>N\u016blla potest mulier tantum s\u0113 d\u012bcere am\u0101tam<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">v\u0113r\u0113, quantum \u0101 m\u0113 Lesbia am\u0101ta mea est.<\/p>\n<p>N\u016blla fid\u0113s \u016bll\u014d fuit umquam foedere tanta,<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">quanta in am\u014dre tu\u014d ex parte reperta me\u0101 est.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Image:\u00a0Gold finger-rings showing the ceremony of joining hands at a marriage. Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.britishmuseum.org\/2012\/04\/20\/meeting-the-romans-at-the-british-museum-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">The British Museum<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catullus\u00a0uses some rather un-romantic words (foedus, fides) in this intense love poem to his mistress Lesbia, argues Joanna Wood.\u00a0He speaks\u00a0as if in rejecting him Lesbia\u00a0is breaking an important Roman social code.\u00a0This poem has an intense tone, she says. N\u016blla potest mulier tantum s\u0113 d\u012bcere am\u0101tam v\u0113r\u0113, quantum \u0101 m\u0113 Lesbia am\u0101ta mea est. N\u016blla fid\u0113s [&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-9528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9528","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=9528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}