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Catullus 101 is an elegiac poem written by the Roman poet Gaius Valerius Catullus. It is addressed to Catullus' dead brother or, strictly speaking, to the "mute ashes" which are the only remaining evidence of his brother's body.
Context
The tone is grief-stricken and tender, with Catullus trying to give the best gift he had to bestow (a poem) on his brother, who was taken prematurely. The last words, "Hail and Farewell" (in Latin, ave atque vale), are among Catullus' most famous; an alternative modern translation might be "I salute you...and goodbye".
The meter is elegiac couplet, which was usually employed in love poetry, such as Catullus' addresses to Lesbia. However, the elegiac couplet was originally used by ancient Greek poets to express grief and lamentation, making it an entirely suitable form to express Catullus' mourning.[citation needed]
Multās per gentēs et multa per aequora vectus adveniō hās miserās, frāter, ad īnferiās, ut tē postrēmō dōnārem mūnere mortis et mūtam nēquīquam alloquerer cinerem quandoquidem fortūna mihī tētē abstulit ipsum heu miser indignē frāter adēmpte mihī nunc tamen intereā haec, prīscō quae mōre parentum trādita sunt trīstī mūnere ad īnferiās, accipe frāternō multum mānantia flētū. Atque in perpetuum, frāter, avē atque valē.
Translation:
Having been carried through many nations and over many seas, I arrive, brother, at these wretched funeral rites so that I might present you with the last tribute of death and speak in vain to silent ash, since Fortune has taken you, yourself, away from me.1 Alas, poor brother, unfairly taken away from me, now in the meantime, nevertheless, these things which in the ancient custom of ancestors are handed over as a sad tribute to the rites, receive, dripping much with brotherly weeping. And forever, brother, hail and farewell.
Oxford Latin Dictionary, (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982, reprinted 1985) p.965, entry on ipse, meaning 5 ("the actual").
Aubrey Beardsley made a translation of the poem, with an accompanying drawing, which he published in volume 7 of the Savoy (November 1896).[1]
According to ancient Greek and Egyptian accounts—most famously recorded by the historian Herodotus—the phoenix was a rare, eagle-like sacred bird with red and golden plumage that visited Egypt only once every 500 years.
When its father died, the phoenix created a hollow egg made of myrrh (a fragrant tree resin) as large as it could manage, placed its father's body inside, sealed it, and flew from Arabia to the Temple of the Sun in Heliopolis, Egypt, to bury the remains.
This classic legend is closely tied to the ancient Egyptian Bennu bird—a heron-like deity of creation, the sun, and cyclical rebirth associated with the god Ra.
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