Beginning of the poem in the Codex SalmasianusEnd of the poem in a humanistic manuscript (codex V)
Pervigilium Veneris (or The Vigil of Venus) is a Latin poem of uncertain date, variously assigned to the 2nd, 4th or 5th centuries.
It is sometimes thought to have been by the poet Tiberianus, because of strong similarities with his poem Amnis ibat, though other scholars attribute it to Publius Annius Florus, and yet others find no sufficient evidence for any attribution.[1][2] It was written professedly in early spring on the eve of a three-night festival of Venus (probably April 1–3) in a setting that seems to be Sicily. The poem describes the annual awakening of the vegetable and animal world through the "benign post-Lucretian" goddess,[3] which contrasts with the tragic isolation of the silent "I" of the poet/speaker, against the desolate background of a ruined city, a vision that prompts Andrea Cucchiarelli to note the resemblance of the poem's construction to the cruelty of a dream.[4] It is notable for its Romanticism which marks a transition between Classical Roman poetry and medieval poetry. It consists of ninety-three verses in trochaic septenarius, and is divided into strophes of unequal length by the refrain:
Cras amet qui nunquam amavit; quique amavit cras amet.
"Let the one love tomorrow who has never loved, and let the one who has loved love tomorrow."
Or by Parnell:
"Let those love now who never loved before,
Let those who always lov'd, now love the more."
^On the text see John William Mackail in Journal of Philology (1888), Vol. xvii.
^Korhonen, Kalle (2012). "Sicily in the Roman Imperial period: Language and society". In Tribulato, Olga (ed.). Language and Linguistic Contact in Ancient Sicily. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 360. ISBN 9781107029316. Retrieved 2 May 2014.
^"la benigna dea post-Lucreziana" (i.e., the Venus genetrix derived from Lucretius's De rerum natura), see Andrea Cucchiarelli, La Veglia di Venere: Pervigilium Veneris (Milano: BUR Classici Greci e Latini, Rizzoli: 2003), p. 7.
^Cucchiarelli (2003), p. 7.
and 23 Related for: Pervigilium Veneris information
PervigiliumVeneris (or The Vigil of Venus) is a Latin poem of uncertain date, variously assigned to the 2nd, 4th or 5th centuries. It is sometimes thought...
After a period when it was little used, it is found again in the PervigiliumVeneris (variously dated to between 2nd and 5th century AD), and taken up...
Aphrodite sprang from the sea-foam, or as Atargatis, .." As in the poem PervigiliumVeneris, line 7 "tossed Dione from the foam", "Dione" in later times signified...
Florus with the author of the PervigiliumVeneris see E. H. O. Müller, De P. Anino Floro poéta et de Pervigilio Veneris (1855), and, for the poet's relations...
Harvard University Press. Tibullus, Elegies in Catullus. Tibullus. PervigiliumVeneris, translated by F. W. Cornish, J. P. Postgate, J. W. Mackail, revised...
New York, 2003. ISBN 978-1568582658. Catullus, Catullus. Tibullus. PervigiliumVeneris., translated by F. W. Cornish, J. P. Postgate, J. W. Mackail, revised...
Noronha & Co. (1911) PervigiliumVeneris, The vigil of Venus. Blackwell (1911) Bibliographical and other studies on the PervigiliumVeneris. Blackwell (1913)...
Shackleton Bailey 1982) and by the letter S in most editions of the PervigiliumVeneris. It is also named Carmina Codicis Parisini 10318 Olim Salmasiani...
Christ") Apicius (De re coquinaria, "On the Subject of Cooking") PervigiliumVeneris ("Vigil of Venus") Sanskrit Asanga:Dharma-dharmata-vibhaga(Distinguishing...
Aeneid and Ovid's Metamorphoses. Venus is mentioned in the Latin poem PervigiliumVeneris ("The Eve of Saint Venus"), written in the third or fourth century...
barn swallow symbolises the coming of spring and thus love in the PervigiliumVeneris, a late Latin poem. In his poem "The Waste Land", T. S. Eliot quoted...
tr., with F.W. Cornish and J.W. Mackail) Catullus, Tibullus and PervigiliumVeneris. Loeb Classical Library (London, 1912) (ed. with notes) M. Annaei...
Also contains the works of Tibullus; Sulpicia; and (Tiberianus?): PervigiliumVeneris L135) Volume I. Panegyric on Probinus and Olybrius. Against Rufinus...
Lesbia and her sparrow. The last illustration is to l. 35 of the 'PervigiliumVeneris.' Mr. Weguelin's designs have the grace and beauty of last century...
late 18th century. The ceiling frieze had this inscription from the PervigiliumVeneris: Designed c.1731 by Kent, heavily rusticated and with a pediment...
ardent student of words, of the literary art", the author of the PervigiliumVeneris). Flavian falls ill during the Festival of Isis and Marius tends...
(eds.), Penguin, 1984, p. 226. (in Italian) Crescenzo Formicola, PervigiliumVeneris, Loffredo, 1998, p. 68 Flavio Magno Aurelio Cassiodoro, De Ortographia...
to texts by his wife; another notable work is his setting of the PervigiliumVeneris. Spelman's manuscripts are held at the Peabody Institute Library...
complete 1913 Warre-Cornish, Francis (1921). Catullus, Tibullus, and PervigiliumVeneris. Loeb Classical Library. London: William Heinemann. Frank O. Copley...
of Oxford lecture 30 April 1909. Lectures on Greek Poetry (1910) PervigiliumVeneris (1911) editor and translator Lectures on Poetry (1914) Russia's Gift...
(1913). The Loeb Classical Library. No. 6: Catullus Tibullus and PervigiliumVeneris, p. 187. Coletta (1984). Moore, T. J. (1989). "Tibullus 1.7: Reconciliation...
English Usage My Crow Pluto The Feast of Love according to the poem PervigiliumVeneris for baritone and chamber orchestra (or piano) (G. Schirmer, 1964)...
Global Information
