---
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.