Second seating of the Ω build program's corpus workstream, landing on the archive's fifteen-hundredth deposit by the accident of sequence and kept there by the fitness of it: Catullus, the one witness in the entire attested reception chain of Sappho 31 whose attribution never died — carmen 51 transmitted for two millennia with its source-relation intact — seated as verified, parsable primary text in an archive built so that no other witness's name need die again. Merrill's edition via the Perseus Digital Library, fetched pinned to canonical-latinLit commit 422896dd, the original XML preserved byte-for-byte beside a line-normalized layer (2,311 reference-tagged lines across 116 poems, form: Cat poem.line, tab, text, editorial notes excluded), source manifest and SHA-256 checksums binding origin, edition, license, and rule. The collation gate verified before commit the exact readings on which the frozen operator's clause derivations stand (#1494): Ille mi par esse deo at the opening, simul te … adspexi at the instantaneity marker, lingua sed torpet and flamma demanat in the catalogue — with the voice-station lacuna preserved as transmitted. Canonical seat at alexanarch data/corpora/catullus/; projections by reference per the plan.
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.