I have attempted here to give what I conceive Catullus may have meant to
convey by the remarkable collocation _At roseo niueae residebant uertice
uittae_. Properly, the wreaths are rosy, the locks snow-white; but the
colour of the wreaths is so blent with the colour of the locks that each
is lost in the other, and an inversion of epithets becomes possible.
_So, in fury of heart, shall death's stern reaper, Achilles._
A verse seems to have been lost here, which I have thus supplied.