Montium domina ut fores Silvarumque virentium 10 Saltuumque reconditorum Amniumque sonantum.

Tu Lucina dolentibus Iuno dicta puerperis, Tu potens Trivia et notho's 15 Dicta lumine Luna.

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Tu cursu, dea, menstruo Metiens iter annuom Rustica agricolae bonis Tecta frugibus exples. 20

The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus — Part 32

Sis quocumque tibi placet Sancta nomine, Romulique, Antique ut solita's, bona Sospites ope gentem.

The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus — Part 32

Diana's faith inbred we bear Youths whole of heart and maidens fair, Let boys no blemishes impair, And girls of Dian sing!

O great Latonian progeny, 5 Of greatest Jove descendancy, Whom mother bare 'neath olive-tree, Deep in the Delian dell;

That of the mountains reign thou Queen And forest ranges ever green, 10 And coppices by man unseen, And rivers resonant.

Thou art Lucína, Juno hight By mothers lien in painful plight, Thou puissant Trivia and the Light 15 Bastard, yclept the Lune.

Thou goddess with thy monthly stage, The yearly march doth mete and guage And rustic peasant's messuage, Dost brim with best o' crops, 20

Be hailed by whatso name of grace, Please thee and olden Romulus' race, Thy wonted favour deign embrace, And save with choicest aid.

We, maids and upright youths, are in Diana's care: upright youths and maids, we sing Diana.

O Latonia, progeny great of greatest Jove, whom thy mother bare 'neath Delian olive,

That thou mightst be Queen of lofty mounts, of foliaged groves, of remote glens, and of winding streams.

Thou art called Juno Lucina by the mother in her travail-pangs, thou art named potent Trivia and Luna with an ill-got light.

Thou, Goddess, with monthly march measuring the yearly course, dost glut with produce the rustic roofs of the farmer.

Be thou hallowed by whatsoe'er name thou dost prefer; and cherish, with thine good aid, as thou art wont, the ancient race of Romulus.

Poetae tenero, meo sodali Velim Caecilio, papyre, dicas, Veronam veniat, Novi relinquens Comi moenia Lariumque litus: Nam quasdam volo cogitationes 5 Amici accipiat sui meique. Quare, si sapiet, viam vorabit, Quamvis candida milies puella Euntem revocet manusque collo Ambas iniciens roget morari, 10 Quae nunc, si mihi vera nuntiantur, Illum deperit inpotente amore: Nam quo tempore legit incohatam Dindymi dominam, ex eo misellae Ignes interiorem edunt medullam. 15 Ignosco tibi, Sapphica puella Musa doctior: est enim venuste Magna Caecilio incohata mater.