EA-CORPORA-01 · Seat 02: Catullus — The Witness Who Kept the Name, Seated as Deposit 1,500

deposit_number: 1500 hex: 060F title: "EA-CORPORA-01 · Seat 02: Catullus — The Witness Who Kept the Name, Seated as Deposit 1,500" creator: Sharks, Lee date: 2026-08-19 content_type: Corpus seating license: "Texts: public-domain edition via Perseus (CC BY-SA packaging); this record CC-BY-4.0" substrate: Seating executed by TACHYON (Claude substrate) per EA-OMEGA-BUILD-01 under MANUS direction; collation gate automated, asserted before commit. axn_schema_version: v2 protocol_version: "" keywords: - EA-CORPORA-01 - corpus seating - Catullus - carmen 51 - Merrill - Perseus - canonical-latinLit - commit pin - collation gate - deposit 1500 - Sappho 31 reception

EA-CORPORA-01 · Seat 02: Catullus — The Witness Who Kept the Name, Seated as Deposit 1,500

Seat 02 places Catullus at data/corpora/catullus/ in the pattern Seat 01 established: original/ holds the Perseus lat2 XML exactly as fetched at commit 422896dde7f07509f151d18bb5fe351b77458748; text/ holds one line-normalized file, 2,311 lines of the form "Cat 51.7<TAB>...", across 116 poems; source.json and MANIFEST.sha256 bind Merrill's edition, the license, the normalization rule, and checksums over every byte. The gate verified carmen 51 whole at the loci the program's clause-set was frozen on: the facing figure who watches and hears, the simul of the instantaneous seizure, the tongue that numbs and the flame that runs beneath the limbs — and the eighth line's famous absence rides the seating untouched, the voice-station preserved as the hole the tradition transmitted. That this witness takes the round number is recorded without apology: the carrier who kept the name for two thousand years, hosted at deposit 1,500 by the archive whose whole argument is that keeping the name is an engineering problem with a solution.