The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus
Catullus
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- 10 To live down Ages lend thou lasting aid!
- 10 That mind might win from misery free!
- 15 Who bore so pretty a Sparrow fro' her ta'en.
- 25 Yet were such things whilome: now she retired
- 5 Oraclum Iovis inter aestuosi
- 15 Reprobate! Woe to thee! What life remains?
- 5 Venisti. o mihi nuntii beati!
- 10 Oh! Of all mortal men beatified
- 20 Non possem octo homines parare rectos.'
- 20 Eight stiff-backed loons I could not buy.'
- 20 Ilia rumpens:
- 20 Bursting the vitals:
- 15 Miserunt mihi muneri Fabullus
- 15 Fabúllus sent me a free-giftie given
- 10 Seu quid suavius elegantiusvest:
- 5 To cause thee plague me with so many a bard?
- 20 And with such torments pay thee for thy pains.
- 10 Infesto pueris bonis malisque.
- 5 Then guard my boy in purest way.
- 5 Nam castum esse decet pium poetam
- 5 For pious poet it behoves be chaste
- 10 Verum totius ut lacus putidaeque paludis
- 5 So may the bridge hold good when builded after thy pleasure
- 25 Or in the sluggish mud his soul supine to deposit
- 15 Sanguine hanc etiam mihi (sed tacebitis) aram
- 20 Rich be the neighbour-hind and negligent eke his Priapus:
- 15 Before the temples of the Gods must bleed.
- 10 But what (ah me! ah me!) compels me weep
- 20 Possis. suus cuique attributus est error:
- 20 Thou canst: his lache allotted none shall lack
- 25 Never belittle nor despise;
- 10 Yet neither slave he owns nor money-chest."
- 10 Ne laneum latusculum manusque mollicellas
- 5 O ventum horribilem atque pestilentem!
- 5 But ye fare whither please ye (water-nymphs!)
- 15 Disgrace of Romulus! Remus' shame!
- 15 Quid est alid sinistra liberalitas?
- 20 Fear him the Gallias? Him the Britons' fear?
- 10 Ventos inrita ferre ac nebulas aerias sinis.
- 10 To lie reposing in the longed-for bed!
- 10 Nam pransus iaceo et satur supinus
- 5 Why not to banishment and evil hours
- 15 Thou puissant Trivia and the Light
- 15 Wasting her inmost marrow-core hath burned.
- 10 Iocose lepide vovere divis.
- 15 Durrachium—thine Adrian abode—
- 20 And teeth with Spanish urine polishèd.
- 5 With what of comfort hast thou deign'd console?
- 15 Tamen renidere usque quaque te nollem:
- 5 Is't that the vulgar mouth thy name by rote?
- 5 An ye would guard her (kinsmen folk)
- 15 Sed non est tamen hoc satis putandum.
- 20 Our noting books (O rotten whore!) restore!"
- 5 Leman to Formian that rake-a-hell.
- 15 Repose and nettle-broth healed all my ills.
- 25 Quis ullos homines beatiores
- 25 Who e'er saw mortals happier than these two?
- 5 Upon rich banquets sumptuously spread
- 5 Not albe denser than dried wheat-ears show
- 5 Now in one measure then in other line
- 20 Lest doom thee Nemesis hard pain repay:—
- 10 Flows subtle flame; with sound its own
- 5 Tibi et Fuficio seni recocte
- 14 In such proud lodging (friend) wouldst self denay?
- 5 Erstwhile I came upon a lad who a lass
- 10 Right well are paired these Cinaedes sans shame.
- 5 Contemptam haberes a! nimis fero corde?
- 95 Aureas quatiunt comas:
- 95 How shake their locks begilt with gold:
- 30 Quid datur a divis felici optatius hora?
- 65 Qui genero sua iura simul cum dote dederunt.
- 20 Hesperus! say what flame more cruel in Heaven be fanned?
- 35 Hesper! thou seizest them with title changed to Eöus.
- 55 Tends her many a hind and tends her many a herdsman:
- 30 Viridem citus adit Idam properante pede chorus.
- 90 Ibi semper omne vitae spatium famula fuit.
- 15 My sect pursuing led by me have nerved you to confront
- 80 He who with over-freedom fain would fly mine empery.
- 25 Teque adeo eximie taedis felicibus aucte
- 50 Haec vestis priscis hominum variata figuris
- 85 Magnanimum ad Minoa venit sedesque superbas.
- 10 Weaving plants of the pine conjoined in curve of the kelson;
- 50 This be a figured cloth with forms of manhood primeval
- 65 Now no more smooth zone contains her milky-hued paplets:
- 75 Reacht the Gortynian roofs where dwelt th' injurious Monarch.
- 85 Sought he Minos the Haughty where homed in proudest of Mansions.
- 5 Namque mei nuper Lethaeo gurgite fratris
- 20 In the chaste breast of the Maid hidden a-sudden out-sprang;
- 35 Sei reditum tetullisset. is haut in tempore longo
- 65 Virginis et saevi contingens namque Leonis
- 85 Illius a mala dona levis bibat irrita pulvis:
- 65 For with Virgo in touch and joining the furious Lion's
- 80 Earlier yield not selves unto unanimous wills
- 90 Every festal day Venus the Goddess appease;
- 40 Tantum operire soles aut aperire domum?
- 30 Who in the heart of his son lief was ——!
- 45 Further she noted a wight whose name in public to mention
- 10 Muneraque et Musarum hinc petis et Veneris:
- 25 Cuius ego interitu tota de mente fugavi
- 55 Maesta neque adsiduo tabescere lumina fletu
- 70 Quo mea se molli candida diva pede
- 10 Hence of me seekest thou gifts Muses and Venus can give:
- 30 Such be no shame (Manius!): rather 'tis matter of ruth.
- 55 Nor did these saddened eyes to be dimmed by assiduous weeping
- 70 Thither graceful of gait pacing my goddess white-hued
- 90 Troy to sad ashes that turned valour and valorous men!
- 10 Or at their reason of flight blatantly wondering cease.
- 5 Whatso he willed did he; and nowdays albe his uncle
- 5 Ravished; (alas and alas!) of our life thou cruellest cruel
- 5 Certès sure am I not an Rumour rightfully whisper
- 5 Deem I thus did his dame and thus-wise Liber his uncle
- 10 Quare iam te cur amplius excrucies?
- 25 Ipse valere opto et taetrum hunc deponere morbum.
- 15 This be thy safe-guard sole; this conquest needs to be conquered;
- 25 Would I were only healed and shed this fulsome disorder.
- 5 Ventures he (O Gellius!) what ne'er can ultimate Tethys
- 5 So may their issue adore busy gods with recognised verses
- 5 Sed neque quod matrem nec germanam esse videbam
- 10 Crime wherein may be found somewhat enormous of guilt.
- 10 At populus tumido gaudeat Antimacho.
- 10 Leave I the mob to enjoy tumidest Antimachus.
- 5 Certe non tanto mors inmatura dolorist
- 10 Et non pistrino traditur atque asino?
- 5 Wouldst thou undo us all with a thorough undoing (O Victius!)
- 10 Tamquam conmictae spurca saliva lupae.
- 10 Like unto slaver foul shed by the butterèd bun.
- 5 Restituis cupido atque insperanti ipsa refers te.
- 5 Vt liceat nobis tota producere vita
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