Love
XXXIV: Great Diana protecteth us
Translated by Robinson Ellis (1871) · From The Poems and Fragments of Catullus (1871)
Great Diana protecteth us,
Maids and boyhood in innocence.
Maidens virtuous, innocent
Boys, your song be Diana.
Hail, Latonia, thou that art
Throned daughter of enthronis'd
Jove; near Delian olive of
Mighty mother y-boren.
Queen of mountainous heights, of all
Forests leafy, delightable;
Glens in bowery depths remote,
Rivers wrathfully sounding.
Thee, Lucina, the travailing
Mother haileth, a sovereign
Juno; Trivia thou, the bright
Moon, a glory reflected.
Thou thine annual orb anew,
Goddess, monthly remeasuring,
Farmsteads lowly with affluent
Corn dost fill to the flowing.
Be thy heavenly name whate'er
Name shall please thee, in hallowing;
Still keep safely the glorious
Race of Romulus olden.
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Catullus, Gaius Valerius. “XXXIV: Great Diana protecteth us.” Translated by Robinson Ellis. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/catullus/31/.
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Catullus, Gaius Valerius. “XXXIV: Great Diana protecteth us.” Translated by Robinson Ellis. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/catullus/31/.
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