Entries from September 2007

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007

The Plea of Orpheus (Ovid, Metamorphoses 10.14-39)

[audio:http://blogs.dickinson.edu/archive/images/the-plea-of-orpheus.mp3] perque leves populos simulacraque functa sepulcro Persephonen adiit inamoenaque regna tenentem umbrarum dominum pulsisque ad carmina nervis sic ait: ‘o positi sub terra numina mundi, in quem reccidimus, quicquid mortale creamur, si licet et falsi positis ambagibus oris vera loqui sinitis, non huc, ut opaca viderem Tartara, descendi, nec uti villosa colubris terna Medusaei […]

Thursday, September 6th, 2007

Hymn to a Gladiator (Martial 5.24)

[audio:http://blogs.dickinson.edu/archive/images/hymn-to-a-gladiator.mp3] Hermes Martia saeculi uoluptas, Hermes omnibus eruditus armis, Hermes et gladiator et magister, Hermes turbo sui tremorque ludi, Hermes, quem timet Helius, sed unum, 5 Hermes, cui cadit Aduolans, sed uni, Hermes uincere nec ferire doctus, Hermes subpositicius sibi ipse, Hermes diuitiae locariorum, Hermes cura laborque ludiarum, 10 Hermes belligera superbus hasta, Hermes aequoreo […]