Poetry
July/Aug 2017
Sappho 58a: The Cologne Papyrus
From the Greek and Latin. Dear girls, [I’m still possessed] of the lovely gifts [of the Muses], violet-dressed; [I’m still in love with song] and the lyre’s voice that […]
Poetry
July/Aug 2017
Catullus 11
To Furius and Aurelius You’d stick beside Catullus, your old friend, if he takes off for India’s farthest reaches, where the eastern ocean at the world’s end thunders the beaches; […]
Poetry
July/Aug 2017
Horace Ode 4.7
The snows have fled; meadows put on their blooms and trees their leafy clothes. The newborn earth resumes her ancient changes; the river, sinking, flows in its old repose. The nymphs […]
Poetry
July/Aug 2017
Two Epigrams from the “Greek Anthology”
Philodemus 6 (AP v. 115) I loved Demo of Paphos. Fair enough. Then, Demo the Samian. Still, normal stuff. The third was from Nysa. It wasn’t funny, this. Then the fourth […]