Words and Verse
Catullus V (Translation-Latin)
If you see any wéìrd accënt marks, that's to shield certain words from the dumb filter that filters out words like cùm, which is the Latin word for "With"
Honey, let's live. let's really live and love.
The hèll with what those greyhead foggies bawl
That cràp's not worth the shine off a bent-up penny.
The sun may set, though suns can rise again,
But when the hot glow of our short-lived light
Gives us the last cold smoulder, then the night
Brings us to slumber through a dawnless gloom.
So serve a thousand kisses up to me!
And then a hundred! Don't stop now! More thousands
Another hundred! Sitting pretty on kisses,
We lose count as we volley and serve them all.
Don't stop to count them. Evil eyes might leer
And glitter green with envy at our kisses.
Original:
uiuamus mea Lesbîa. atque amemus.
rumoresque senum seueriorum
omnes unius aestimemus assis.
soles occidere et redire possunt.
nobis cùm semel occidit breuis lux
nox est perpetua una dormienda.
da mi basia mille. deinde centum.
dein mille altera. dein secunda centum.
deinde usque altera mille. deinde centum.
dein cùm milia multa fecerimus
conturbabimus illa ne sciamus
aut ne quis malus inuidere possit
cùm tantum sciat esse basiorum.
Honey, let's live. let's really live and love.
The hèll with what those greyhead foggies bawl
That cràp's not worth the shine off a bent-up penny.
The sun may set, though suns can rise again,
But when the hot glow of our short-lived light
Gives us the last cold smoulder, then the night
Brings us to slumber through a dawnless gloom.
So serve a thousand kisses up to me!
And then a hundred! Don't stop now! More thousands
Another hundred! Sitting pretty on kisses,
We lose count as we volley and serve them all.
Don't stop to count them. Evil eyes might leer
And glitter green with envy at our kisses.
Original:
uiuamus mea Lesbîa. atque amemus.
rumoresque senum seueriorum
omnes unius aestimemus assis.
soles occidere et redire possunt.
nobis cùm semel occidit breuis lux
nox est perpetua una dormienda.
da mi basia mille. deinde centum.
dein mille altera. dein secunda centum.
deinde usque altera mille. deinde centum.
dein cùm milia multa fecerimus
conturbabimus illa ne sciamus
aut ne quis malus inuidere possit
cùm tantum sciat esse basiorum.
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Catullus V (Translation-Latin)
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