Catullus 12 Flashcards
Marrucine Asini, manu sinistra non belle uteris: in ioco atque vino tollis lintea neglegentiorum. Hoc salsum esse putas? Fugit te, inepte: quamvis sordida res et invenusta est.
Marrucinus Asinus: you do not use your left hand elegantly in the joking and in the wine, you lift the napkins of the more careless. Do you think that this is funny? Fool, it escapes you how dirty and un-charming it is.
Non credis mihi? Crede Pollioni fratri, qui tua furta vel talento
mutari velit—est enim leporum differtus puer ac facetiarum.
You don’t believe me? Believe Pollis, your brother who wants your thefts paid back, even for a talent, for he is a boy full of charm and wit.
Quare aut hendecasyllabos trecentos exspecta, aut mihi linteum remitte, quod me non movet aestimatione, verum est mnemosynum mei sodalis.
Wherefore, either expect 300 and Hendecasyllabic lines or send back the napkin to me which doesn’t move me by the value but it is a remembrance of my friend.
Nam sudaria Saetaba ex Hiberis miserunt mihi muneri Fabullus
et Veranius; haec amem necesse est ut Veraniolum meum et Fabullum.
For Fabullus and Veranius sent Saetaban napkins from Spain to me as a gift. It is necessary that I love these things as my little Veraniolus and Fabullus.
