Wed Catullus Poems 1-68

2/15

I o Cornelius
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t him a booklet, claims ii

ts "mere"
gave
-

# his girl has a

petsparrow;h i s ow n desire acts
as a small solace for her
pains,h e wishes play
to her
with
sparrow like she does and lessen his
pain

#B he compares his
girl ta
o
golden apple

#his
girl's sparrow died,h e is
upseta n d angry because n ow his
girl is
depressed

# he describes a ship being retired, and compares it a

t o
person aging

# to Lesbia he her to whato thers I l ove him

urges ignore say just
-

#h e Flavius ashamed loove who is unsmar& tell

won't Catullus abouth e r,
cheating?pet?
claims someone t
unwitty he
is t

#h e calls himself mad because all he wants is for Lesbia to kiss him I he be
can't satisfied

his
#ll he calls w retched
himself because
girl stopped wanting him,h e eventually decides to
say goodbye I
imagines
she will
regretl osing him

wants
#
to Veranius -
h ave
they returned home & Catullus is
very excited,
he k i s s & embrace them
to

he
* taken
by his Varus m e e tVaru s' love a re
unwilty unattractive;h e talks th
o er gets frustrated because he
mispoke
they
is to -
not

says goodbye life her

Fi=anctaueoprts-catulosulgrewrenanispree
to
l i ve adulterers
Catullus' comrades a re Furies & Aurelius;Catullus wants deliver
to a
message his
to
girl he a
long with

to Marrocine Asimus -
he scolds him for
stealing a prized napkin, which Veranos and Fabullus him
sent

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XXII to Ipsitilla asks her
stay home & faithful him, for &
to
stay to
preparing commanding him
-

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#xXVI callost'sgirlmadeavowtsthegodsshewantAmberecordeddulypalbetwasawityessented
a

there

#
VIII to Corrificios?- he is
angry wih
th i s lover; so much for his love, he wa n ts
just consulation

# a b o u tEgnatius of what celtiber a n

xXIX - he smiles
regardless is
happening,h e is not Roman, he's

#
L to Ravidas C allustst i l l wants b e his love
Ravidus to Catullus term price
wretched,
pay long
-
claims he is but so can the

I b o u tAmana
# La claims she is unwell, unattractive, and refuses tloo o k ath e r true
self
-

#LI calls for the Hendecasyllables -

claims an adulteress thinks he's a joke & refuses give
to his notebook back to
wa n ts them m a ke her return it

#Ht
I oa friend ot
f h e from Formlae
bankrupt -

province inaccurately
claims t h e calls her
pretty & compares her tLe
o sbia

#I Catullus claims he wa s
punished for
wanting rich dinners wia
th bad
cough,books I poetry saved him?

Acme
# t a l ks aboutt hlovers
LV e
Septimus & -

they a re head
both ove r heels in love e
wit ha c h other

I i ti s spring;Catullus t r ave l
wants
# says goodbye
now how to -
his
to comrades

#I Piso's lefthand men, Socration & Porcius prefers you?t o

Catullus' Veraniolus & Fabollus h e wonders how

All tosuventos-hewantto miss themmany see

# follies, Romolas' grandson, thanks for being best
the advocatet o a l l

L to Lin u s t a l ksabouth ow they

both w ro t e verses
yesterday,Catullus asks spend
to more time with
h i m be he is a char mer I willy

1he sees that

m an?a s God's equal?;c l a i m s Catullus is too restless & excitable c omes
when i t Le s b i a ?
to

itcaricamsmontersdeceasenomncoctinwacalcottot s e n d a n account of all va l u e s or

of one

LI he writes to a friend thatpeople h ave been

looking for,h e claims thati f his friend doesn't speak outo n where he is, they'll throw
away
love

L aboutCato;Catullus
recently caught girl's the
boy petmasturbating so he
banged him

I claimscaesareManuraareaqmmation-equallydeased,greedy,adultersseeon else

LII B
catullus believes thate ve n if he had
magical powers, he still wouldn'tb e able to find his friend

#describes how Menenius' wife spends time in

graveyards was knocked off by Bonoman Rufa?

#he wonders if has

t h e person he writes to a hard & horrid mind from Libystinian mountains or
Scylla
Wed
On The
Nature of
Things
2/22
Book I :Matter and Space

1.49 affe c tt h
prays Venus,
to whos able to seeas, fertility
of l a n d , trising
the he I
setting of ts
heu n , influence on all nature a life

Venus into all

puts her love
things

he asks her
appease
to Mars & lessen te
hfefe c ts
on wa r so lucretics & others can write

Locretus dedicates his work to his friend Memmius

50-61 starts
w i tA
hto m i c create, feed, I grow
theory.Nature uses atoms to
things

a re
They building
the blocks of life, engendering bodies & seeds o fa l l
things for m wo r l d
the

62-146 to
grovel prostrate
religion causes men selves

Epicurus defined
religion because he wasn't
impressed by mythology or of
fear ful divine
punishment

he
then able to start nature & unmeasured
the
something religion previously prevented
· was
exploring measure

bir t
thoa o fevil
lot
religion gives

·
Agamemnon sacrificed his
daughter for fair sailing weather

others will call or

heathen blasphemer
you a a

· once
you see hardships aren't infinite, you'll see that superstitious threats are
empty a nonsense

·
We fear torments after death

men don't
k n ow what
t h e soul is
-
i t ' s bor n
if or dies or if it's eternal, i f its
condemned hell
to or reincarnated

thata n after life because we're told id

t oes
· We
only believe exists

n a t uo
re a soul
to find outi fi t ' s true, we'll need h ave
to
good reasoning to
investigate the f mind
the

the
G re e ks n e e d tio of
n c re a s e tcomplexity explore this
we Latins have tb
o o r row much f ro m he our
language in order to

146-214
nothing comes nothing
f ro m

the don't understand

We
usually attribute to
gods the
things we see or

· on ce we realize that
nothing comes
nothing,
f ro m we can star t
tosee what's
going
on without
needing gods explain everything
to

If could from withouts e e d

something come
nothing, anything can be bor n

from birds would just

·
people would pop up anywhere, appear sky
i n the & cows could be born
pigs
to

a i tcomes
·
everything has ow n
its
engendering matter mother from

creatures come fs
roeme d s need atoms to b e bor n

things justcome
can't j u stanything
f ro m either

com e from similar conditions at

·
inner capacities make
things what
they are things under cer tain certain times

nourished under
they grow by things suitable conditions
· when suitable them
to

·
deprived
If of n ourishment & suitable conditions, nothing can
grow or survive

215-264 nature dissolves all

things not
but into
nothing

If fronto f
· did,
it
things would justvanish in us all tt
hiem e

nature allows before

no death m atter,
of
otherwise
anything destructible would h ave been
destroyed

atoms thatm a ke replenish wo r l d

the have endured
p a st
the a re immortal

·
they can n eve r to
revert nothingness
 atoms
· a re bound
together
with o t ha
etro m s m a ke
to differentthings the
but
building blocks a re same
the

shapes re m a i n until
something strong enough can destroy thatstruc ture only constituent atoms remain

nature restores withouta

one
things wia
thnother one bir th
n e ve r comes
corresponding death

265-328 nothing
If comes from
nothing I
nothing turns into nothing, let's see whatt hese unseen atoms particles are

tw
h ei n d moves oceans, ships, clouds, fields, knocks ove r trees, a shapes lha
t e nd

· causes destruction
to
bridges, houses, & forests

smells, heat, cold, I sounds we just

but
exist c a n ' ts e e them

damp rains things & keeps

the things wetw i t h o u tu s
seeing it

all
things whither, erode metals, stone, pavement

· a l l disintegrate
they at a level so small thatw e can 't
see it

329-41 empty b e t we e n atoms otherwise tuniverse

he would be full that couldmoved nothing could be created
nothing
space existe -

so ever

eve n
solid-looking things have gaps

water into
·
gets anything

trees &
grow & nothing
· animal nourish themselves
seemingly f ro m

into sealed houses

· cold
gets by way
ofa toms

of differentweights have differentd ensities

things of ts
hea m e size can be which m e a n s
things

·
lighter things have m o re void in I
them heavier
things have less void in them

fins
in th
contrastt o d e a thatf i s h
ie will
push water outo f
way
the a
t o l l ow
space
them m ove
to

· w h e re does
but displaced
the water
go?

· when two bodies collide, where air

does the between them
go?

· whathappens emptiness
to when a container is filled?

Memmius a d m i tt ha
e re between
to -

you've gott o r e spaces

things

o f evidence
see, there's plenty
·
although it's hard to

every piece of evidence will lead another we build ot

f h
w eo r l d universe based w i t h ou t flaws
· to can a model on it
any

418-634 there a re I
things in u
t e i ve rs eatoms
hn & void

· is
there
nothing else no 3rd
thing
-

strange things butthey

·
can happen i nvo l ve those I
things interacting at an invisible level

·
nothing can be moved if doesn'th ave matter because matter location, etc.
it
provides size,

"accident" o fmatter a
anything else is either a
"property" o r space

·
b e divided
matter can't without
being destroyed
· all bodies are touchable the
butn o t
space between

differents tates thatthese "accidents" o ftheir

things
·
existi n a re
being
·
pastevents don'tex i stl i ke matter does

a r e justevents
They that have happened matter
to may or
may not m a t te r
h ave caused the existi n the
to state e xists
it in
 firstbeginnings no force can
quell atoms & their wa l l s can withstand blow
any
-

·
strange when
you
think of how
lightning can penetrate any house or
boiling water can break rock or metals can melt

these a re seeds of all the

the wo r l d

nature (matter & void) in

mustex i s t pure form alone ats o m e level

· a void is where there is no matter atoms a re where is

there no void

there
we re void, would be i fthere
we r e would be void
everything solid
everything
if
· no a no solids,

· each one marks fullness

the or emptiness of to
hether

· atoms can'tb e destroyed or withered therefore are

everlasting, otherwise
they'dhave withered
away already

nature has set o fmatter a to m s t hpointwhere c a n be splitu p because otherwise be reduced

to
limit the
divisibility e they longer they'd nothing
a

to no to

h ave l i m i t t h a ti s pointw h e re matter

· but
they a the c a n bond
together after
falling apart

atoms have m i n i m a l atomic point base for

a pointw h e re they'rei r re d u ci b l e the
unitary something a
else t h etom

these nature's sees-solid, indestructible, I

· are
everlasting

635-918 these who think the

u n i ve rs e is made of fire a re
wrong

· Heraclitus & co.

j u sts a i d these
things thats o u n d
interesting buth ow can
everything be made from fire?

of
f ire
we see too wo rld
qualities
·
much in t he without
the

·
you'd wonder fe
whatt h i re burning & why eve r dies down smoke isn't
is it or
everywhere

· like u n i ve rs e
the would
seems
collapse easily
to o it
f his were tc
hease

thatt h a the
some
say ue
n i ve rs e is made of
only air or water or s om e combination of
couple of 4 elements

Empedocles Aetna which

· from Sicily thoughte verything is fire because he
grew up to
next Mt. exploded constantly

·
all
they believed m
to o uch in Oracles,
the who a re known for spouting b ullshit
out

things from his atoms, because fallen aparto r have been formed
way theory indestruc tible w ould've
· If were
any other of we'd have no universe it never

w h o claim thatw e ' re all nourished by E arth that food

those along air
missing point
· t he with the
gives us are

where do all these

things from atoms for m the
a i r, Earth, seas, I the fe e d everything
come sun, they

"Homoeomeria" where things all made up of of themselves

anaxagoras believed in are
tiny versions

tiny flesh flesh,

tiny
·
made chunk of a blood made of b lood
eg
bones a re of bones, a of is made of chunks is
tiny drops of

things may be say thatb lood

clumped together butt o nothing blood
than other still leaves us
really knowing whatb l o o d
·
is more not is

is a tree that
grows
from Earth
made of Earth
E a r t ho r i s the made tree?
of

he claims
everything is a mixture other
of
things -
much
not oa
f n explanation

·
this focuses too m u c h on external
appearances & not
enough on constitrentparts

any analysis on this causes tw

h eh o l e
thing fa l l
to
apart has
nothing tcompare
o to his atomic theory

919-1106 Lucretics knows he's laying some heavy shit on us buth e believes that
knowing source
the all
of life, matter, etc. c a n
really help us out

he thinks it's s o u l thatw i l l

medicine for the free from superstition religion, & allows to know thatatoms are the of the
us us
beginning r e a l nature of
things

les question:
beyond atoms another

· is ta n
h e re infinite number of a toms & an infinite amount
ofvo i d in nature?
 ·
nothing can be limited without
some kind
boundary
of

th
uen i ve rs e I threw
·
If you stood att h
edge
e of a
spear, where would
go?wo u l d fly
it it out or would bounce
it a
off wall?

what's
beyond thatwall?

·
there's no limit
tothvo
e id & no limit
tothaetoms

There's bottom tt
ohwo
e rld & limit
tow h e re atoms
no no
go

·
limits something hills divide air, separates one hill an ot hb
e ru tthere's
nothing beyond tentirety
else
everything air from he toclose in
-

it

space is so infinite that

lightc o u l d n ' tt r ave l across if
it given all
eternity
of to do so because has
it no end

· nature wo r l d
constrains the from
granting a limit fo r atoms b e bounded
to
by voids & therefore
bounding vo i d
the

things t a ke shape for m by atoms

bouncing around
eventually collecting together

·
this until the Earth created, & form sky into
goes on is seas r i ve r the comes
being

matter forms to witt

hh e i r
eventually create an imals seed within them, new animals a re created

all the
while, feed Earth
continue the process of creation I
grow from the
ta
hne imals other that
on each
plants destruction

a to m s
the still
pinging
around outt hw
e rei l l arrive supply cycle
to the & some within cycle
the will be free
set

thatwould thatt hi u n i ve rs e
every direction,
since t hvo
both e id m a t te r a re infinite in mean s
e re no center t
t oh e

·
although we see sky as up, & water E a r t a
h s down, there is n o center because is
it all infinite

a toms & void

but tuniverse
he
is nothing
in
there
Thurs Eclogues
The
2123

Eclogue I
the Dialogue of Melbous and
Tityrus

divine confiscated
Tityrus, land thanks
youth,
older able his a his has been
an man who was keep
to to discusses
destiny Meliboeus,
with whose land

Ecologue I Corydon's Love for Alexis

love for the Alexis heighto f the

a
monologue by the
shepherd Corydon, who bemoans his
unrequited boy in the summer

Ecologue III
Dialogue
the of Menaclas and Damoetas

Menachas and Damoteas Pollio

two shepherds, compete in
alternating verses thati n cl u d e praise for

old Palaemon declares ia

t tie-both
d e s e r ve a
prize

Ecologue If Golden
the
Age

consuls Rome
invoking tpastoral
he muses, Virgil sings a
prophetic song announcing Pollo has
begun his
year as one of the of

a new
peace will child
age of
begin, symbolized by a newborn

Eclogue I Dialogue
The ofM enachus and Mopcus Daphnis

two
shepherds, Menaclus and Mopsus meett o
sing together

propose several themes from the

previous before settling their of idealized a f te r his
deted
they eclogues on ow n t hdeeath Daphnis, an shepherd who was
passing

Eclogue I the
Song of Silenus

Virgil, addressing Varus, tells how two boys have

captured Silenus, an ever intoxicated old
sage

keeps t ho
el d motif of the wise b e forced s h a re his
with man who needs to to immense knowledge

in
exchange for his freedom, Silenus
sings a
song
aboutt h e
origin
th
of wo
e rld

he ends his
song a
with
eulogy for Cornelius Gallus, the poat politician in Virgil's circle who later kills himself

Ecologue I I ICorydon and Thyrsis Compete

Daphnis the contestb e t we e n and

Meliboeus recounts how summoned him w i t n e ss
to thyrsis Corydon

c o n te st
Corydon wins the

Ecologue I Damon and Alphesiboeus Compete

two songs of love cited and dedicated unidentified

unhappy a re ta
o n
patron

Damon's lamentove r unhappy lover who committed suicide

song is a an

to back her beloved Daphnis

Alphesiboeus' song recounts the
magical gestures and incarnations thata wo r r a m uses
bring
Ecologue IT hDialogue
e Lycidas
of and Moeris

Lycidas and Moeris

figures from theocritus' Idylls meeta s Moeris drives his flock to
itsnew ow n e r

to of Menalcas
they try remember
songs
the

Ecologue &
Gallus's Love

Virgil nymph
invokes the Arethusa as his muse or
spirito fartistic inspiration

Arcadia
he tells how Cornelius Callus, represented as an
untucky lover, wa s received in as a new
living form of Daphnis

final stanza, Virgil takes his leave from

in the
pastoral poetry
Thurs
The Battle of Actium
2123

Virgil's Description of Battle

the of Actium

Augustus Caesar lead Italians

the both senators & people into battle

Agrippa wa s favored
by w i n d s and
the gods -
he had the
highestdistinction for command ats e a

Antonius, who lead the EastEgypth a d barbaric wealth

and a of
diversity arms

battle describes Roman bloodshed by alluding the Roman

as the occurs, Vergil to
gods

Caesar made offerings gods, defeated

to the Cleopatra queen,
the and Romans
the wo n

Morace, Odes I , 37

Horace urges his audience d r i n k , for they

to a re now free

Cleopatra queen death a destruction for Rome this wo u l d have been

brewing
While the was ac tion a sin

Caesar captured her, ending her madness and false hope of tw

he a r
winning

she decided td
o ie
nobly, taking fate her hands a
killing herself u n l i ke
cowering
into ow n a wo m a n

Propertius Book II.11.1-7 2 Woman's Power

Propertius compares himself to

Antony and other men,
claiming they we re
being enslaved
by wo m e n

he
gives mythological examples of women,
powerful butre a l historical
examples om
f en

had her slaves active & sex, this meant

h e r social below her slaves'
Cleopatra sex with since men were wo m e n were passive in status wa s
-

reduced, controlled Roman

Antony's status was also since he wa s
by a non wo m a n

corrupted and
degraded Cleopatra -
used brutal language and claimed she was incestuous

Augustus is named but Antony is not -

Augustus doesn'ts u c c u m b Cleopatra

to
Antony
but does

after Antony dres, Cleopatra flees;Rome was afraid of Cleopatra, but

n ow
Cleopatra is afraid Rome
of
-

Augustus' forces a re powerful

Cleopatra would become

rather due than a
prisoner ofR o m e
Mon
Horace Odes- Book III
2127

I On Happiness

the o ft h e
Moses,
poet, as
priest sings new poems
a
to new
generation
be &
men mustre a l i ze a r e all subjectt o Fate &
they gods,
the
way
and the to
happy serene is to desires
limit & be contentw i t l
h ittle

# Mystery
The of Ceres

the Roman soldier idealized and his fate is declared be &

sweet
young is to
glorious

true virtus is the

path h e ave n
to and is
discretion vital the
to
safety
of all

Augustus
#

To Caesar,

fearless and attain

j u s tm a n
the is can
divinity

Juno deification R omulus

speech of
granting the of on condition that
Troy is n eve r rebuilt

IN To Calliope

his life
the
poetrecalls his
boyhood and claims he owes the
to of
protection muces, who
the likewise refresh
Augustus now thath i s
campaigns are ove r

G i a n ts threatened
the to overthrow the Olympians butwe re unable to;force is wicked withoutw isdom

* To
Augustus;To Romans
the

Britain
Augustus will be declared a
god after d e fe ato f
the and Parthia

of
marrying Parthian
of Roman soldiers Regulus rejected friend's pleas
disgrace
the wives us heroism
the who
stay
to & kepth i s oath to h i s torturers
re t u r n to in Carthage

Romans
#

To the

Rome rebuild the

temples & relationships with
the
gods, rind sexual rife Rome
preserves Roman implety brings
which is
must rule:
immorality now in

old virtuous &

young people
of were disciplined whereas our
generation is worse te ve r
h an and
leading come
wo rs e t o
to
Mon Divine
The Deeds of the Augustus
2127

Ia t Home, after tc battle,m a d e

19, he raised an
armyl setf r e e was
assigned propractor, made consul hue r re n t consulsdied in a triumvir

I he drove the killed his father legal order, punished Home

m e n who into exile with their crime, and
conquered in
them battle after
they waged war on

3 he
waged wars often,a s victor, he
spared citizens
seeking pardon I
gave them
land -
about5 0 0 0 Romans were swor n him
to

4 he had
many triumphs
-
named emperor 21 times & consul atl e a st
13 lat3 7 years of
power),people sacrificed the
to
gods for hum

h e didn'taccept offered I Romans food a th i s expense I administration

5 d ictatorship when was
it
gott h e
through a
shortage -
saved them

6 e n e curator
often tlho laws a customs,
although he was of he never broke precedent w i ta
h new political position,h e used tribunician power

7 triumvir for Rome, high priest, angur, of rites, feasts

he was
settling performer one ot s a c re d
f he

8 as consul, he worked Marcus

wit h
Agrippa, conducted lustrums,created precedents, and restored traditions
ancient

9 5
years, consuls & priests decreed vows and
prayed ats hrines for his health,they would celebrate his life
every

10 w as
it decreed thath e would be respected forever I would have tribunician power as
long as he lived,
only when thepriestdied did he t a ke the
agree t o ro l e

II for his return to

Rome from & Vestal him
altars were blessed
Syria, on
anniversary
the
every year, priests Virgins sacrificed to

12 altar
the of
AugustPeace in f u l d ofMars
the was him
blessed to when he returned
Spain
f ro m & Gaul;m o re annual sacrifices

was secured the

a n c e sto rs wanted Janus Quirinus tb
o e closed happened 3 times because of 2 otherwise
13 When
peace through victory, him, only
-

14 When his sons turned 14, ts

hee nate & made them consuls designate behalf h i s honor wo u l d take power years
5
people on of
they
-
in

15 throughout his rule, he

gave
the Roman
plebs money & spoils of war

16 he
paid the towns
money
fields
for the he
assigned soldiers
to -
he was the
only person td
o o this;he
paid ts
hoe l d e rs too

17 he helped senatorial
the
treasury 4 times with his money,h e gave
money
the
to
military treasury from his
patrimony
from
fell short, of
granary &
18 his
When taxes he
gave outc ontributions graine money patrimony men
to

19 he built
thse
e n a te house a temples for many gods

20 he rebuiltt h e Capitol, theater of

Pompey, aqueducts, Forums, basilics, temples, roads, bridges -
without
a ny of
inscription his name

21 he built
temples M a rs
of Ultor & Apollo on
private grounds,h e sent back
gold crowns to Hallan towns - t i m e s he was named
refused them the
emperor

22 games, beasts amphitheater

gladiator shows, celebrated hunts
open
he puto n and in the or in the
gave people
of

23 he
gave the
people a
spectacle a
of naval battle

24h e replaced ornaments in temples

the h e i a n cities he defeated,h e removed the statues of
of tAs himself, erected in conquered cities -
used the
money for Apollo's offerings

25 Italians wanted
of the
he restored
peace from pirates,he
the
gave
masters w ir
thun
away
slaves captured people,conquered countries swore allegiance to him his rule

26 he extended the borders of R oman provinces & restored peace provinces,h e

to traveled where no Romans had before I conquered m o re
places

Roman rule,h e distributed

provinces h e i rs & allies
27 he added Egypt to other to

28 he founded colonies solders conquered provinces & Rome we re

of in in
they very populus
-

29 he recovered standards & spoils from of Mars

provinces
-

placed in
them
temple
the Ultor

30 he forced conquered tribes be

to Roman
subjectt o rule, I expanded his borders

31 emissarces from Indian kings were h i m , which had

sentt o n eve r happen a
to Roman leader before,many soughtf riendship

often sentt o
32 supplications by kings were him -

soughttrendship
they

33 nations recieved from him tf

hier s t
kings of those nations which
soughtby
they emissaries

34 he was honored
extravagantly for
handing his power th
tose
e n a te d people after
putting t h e civil war,afterwards, he was
out on same
the level as his
colleagues
Equestrian & Roman
35 at76, he wa s declared father the
of countr y by the order
people
-
wa s
it inscribed in
temples, forums, of the senate house
Wed The Georgies
311

I: 1-42 Invocation
The

begins by praying various

to
agricultural duetres -

Bacchus, Ceres, Neptune, Pan, Minerva, Triptolemos, Sylvanus

he addresses Augustus -

professes his
divinity, his
place among tst
h e a rs , etc

describes
springtime and a
variety of agricultural products

# :136-176 A
Celebration of Italy

praises Italy's land, seasons, food, animals,

gods, riches, soldiers

# :251-280 Disease in Bees

describes how tell b ees and d o for their

whatt o
to if a re
dying colony once one does

#
:281-314
Autogenesis of B ees

explains thati f whole dues, is time

bring A ristaeus' invention blood of dead bullocks
a brood it to out - the can
regenerate them

tells of this and tells how of bullock's death bees

origins
the cure, process
the the creates

: 315-386
# Aristaeus and His Mother
Cyrene

When Aristaeus his

lost bees, he called out
tohis
by
mother r i ve r and asks
the why she
punishes him so

she heard him from her chamber in r i ve r ' s

the depths -
she splitsth i v e r so he
re can v i s ih
t er

she poured wine

them I prayed Ocean
the & her sister
nymphs

# :387-452 the Capture of Proteus

Proteus wa s a seer
living in Nymphs
Neptune's waters,t h e venerate him

Cyrene tells her s on to capture Proteus -

he could
give Aristaeus an explanation for td
heisease

she explains how he be chained while tired, and will forms she where find him
must
change says to
-

Aristaeus successful old

is in
capturing the man-once chained, he can n otescape with
trickery

: 453-527
# Orpheus and
Eurydice

Proteus claims Orpheus, angry for his wife, broughtp unishment to

lost Aristaeus

he
sang
as
Eurydice followed behind due to
Proserpine's orders, buth e turned around and thus lost
her
song again
a

#N:528 -558 Aristacus Sacrifices Orpheus

to

told Aristaeus choose

Cyrene to 4
bulls, drain their bloods on altars, send funeral gifts
to
Orpheus, and worship Eurydice

when he does, bees swa r m from tb

heulls' bodies