Catullus 11

Question 1

Furi et Aureli comites Catulli, sive in extremos penetrabit Indos,
litus ut longe resonante Eoa tunditur unda,

Answer 1

Furius and Aurelius, companions of Catullus, whether he will penetrate into the furthest India where the shore is beaten far and wide by a resounding eastern wave,

Question 2

sive in Hyrcanos Arabesve molles, seu Sagas sagittiferosve Parthos, sive quae septemgeminus colorat aequora Nilus, sive trans altas gradietur Alpes,

Answer 2

Or into the Hyrcanian, or the gentle Arabs or the Scythians or the arrow bearing Parthians, or which seas the sevenfold Nile colors, or he will walk across the tall Alps,

Question 3

Caesaris visens monimenta magni, Gallicum Rhenum horribilesque ulti- mosque Britannos, omnia haec, quaecumque feret voluntas caelitum, temptare simul parati, pauca nuntiate meae puellae non bona dicta.

Answer 3

Seeing the monuments of great Caesar, the Gallic Rhine, the horrible sea and the farthest Britons, having been prepared to try all these things at the same time, whatever the will of the gods will bring, announce a few not good words to my girl.

Question 4

cum suis vivat valeatque moechis, quos simul complexa tenet trecentos, nullum amans vere, sed identidem omnium ilia rumpens;

Answer 4

Let her live and let her be strong with her adulterers, whom having embraced 300 at the same time in an embrace, truly loving none but repeatedly breaking of the groins of all;

Question 5

nec meum respectet, ut ante, amorem, qui illius culpa cecidit velut prati ultimi flos, praetereunte postquam tactus aratro est.

Answer 5

And let her not look back, let my love as before which because of the fault of that one, just as a flower of the furthest meadow, after it has been touched by the passing plow.