Social Commentaries

CXV: Acres thirty in all, good grass, own Mentula master

by Gaius Valerius Catullus c. 84 – c. 54 BC

Translated by Robinson Ellis (1871) · From The Poems and Fragments of Catullus (1871)

Social Commentaries

Acres thirty in all, good grass, own Mentula master;
Forty to plough; bare seas, arid or empty, the rest.
Poorly methinks might Croesus a man so sumptuous equal,
Counted in one rich park owner of all he can ask.
Grass or plough, big woods, much mountain, mighty morasses;
On to the farthest North, on to the boundary main.

Vastness is all that is here; yet Mentula reaches a vaster--
Man? not so; 'tis a vast mountainous ominous He.

MLA

Catullus, Gaius Valerius. “CXV: Acres thirty in all, good grass, own Mentula master.” Translated by Robinson Ellis. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/catullus/107/.

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Catullus, Gaius Valerius. “CXV: Acres thirty in all, good grass, own Mentula master.” Translated by Robinson Ellis. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/catullus/107/.

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