Catullus 4 Flashcards
Phaselus ille, quem videtis, hospites, ait fuisse navium celerrimus, neque ullius natantis impetum trabis nequisse praeterire, sive palmulis opus foret volare sive linteō.
That ship which you see guests, says that it was the fastest of ships and that it was not unable to go by the assault of any swimming ship, whether it would be necessary to fly by the oars or sail.
Et hoc negat minacis hadriatici negāre litus Insulāsve Cycladās
Rhodumque nobilem horridamque Thraciam Propontida trucemve Ponticum sinum, ubi iste post phaselus antea fuit comāta silva; nam Cyrōtiō in iugō loquente saepe sibilum edidit coma.
And it denies that the shore of the threatening Adriatic denies or the Cycladian islands and noble Rhodes and the rough Thracian Propontis or the Pontic gulf where that, after a ship before was a leafy forest, for a Cytorian ridge often gave forth a hissing sound with speaking foliage.
Amastri Pontica et Cytore buxifer, tibi haec fuisse et esse cognitissima ait phaselus, ultimā ex origine tuō stetisse dicit in cacūmine, tuō imbuisse palmulās in aequore, et inde tot per impotentia fretā erum tulisse, laeva sive dexterā vocaret aura, sive utrumque Iuppiter simul secundus incidisset in pedem,
Oh Pontic Amastris and boxtree-bearing Cytorus, the ship says that these things were and are very known to you. It says that it stood from its earliest origin on your peak, wetted its oars in your sea, and from there it brought its master through so many violent seas, whether a breeze called on the left or the right, and whether a favorable Jupiter had fallen on each foot at once.
neque ulla vota litoralibus deis sibi esse facta, cum veniret a mari novissimo hunc ad usque limpidum lacum. Sed haec prius fuere: nunc reconditā senet quiete seque dedicat tibi, gemelle Castor et gemelle Castoris.
And it says that not any prayers were made by it to the shore gods when it was coming from the most recently to this continuously clear lake. But these things were before: now it grows old in hidden quiet and dedicates itself to you, O twin Castor and twin of Castor.
