History & Politics
Catalepton 8
Translated by H. Rushton Fairclough (Loeb, 1918) · From Minor Poems (Loeb, 1918)
O little villa, that once wast Sire's, and thou, poor tiny farm — yet to such an owner even thou wert wealth — to thee, if aught more sad I hear about our home-land, I entrust myself, and, along with me, those whom I have ever loved, my father first and foremost. Thou shalt now be to him what Mantua and what Cremona had been aforetime.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
Codex Note
Appendix Vergiliana; authorship by Virgil doubtful.
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Virgil. “Catalepton 8.” Translated by H. Rushton Fairclough. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/virgil/47/.
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Virgil. “Catalepton 8.” Translated by H. Rushton Fairclough. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/virgil/47/.
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