Catullus 14 Flashcards
Ni te plus oculis meis amarem, iucundissime Calve, munere isto
odissem te odio Vatiniano: nam quid feci ego quidve sum locutus, cur me tot male perderes poetis?
Most delightful Calvus, unless I loved you more than my eyes, I would hate you with a Vetinian hatred. Because of that gift for what did I do or what did I say whereby you destroyed me with so many poets?
Isti di mala multa dent clienti, qui tantum tibi misit impiorum. Quod si, ut suspicor, hoc novum ac repertum munus dat tibi Sulla litterator, non est mi male, sed bene ac beate, quod non dispereunt tui labores.
Let the gods give many evils to that client of yours, who sent you so many ungodly poets to you. But if as I suspect, Sulla the teacher gives this new and discovered gift to you, it is not bad for me, but well and happy, because of your labors I have not failed.
Di magni, horribilem et sacrum libellum! Quem tu scilicet ad tuum Catullum misti, continuo ut die periret, Saturnalibus, optimo dierum! Non non hoc tibi, false, sic abibit.
Great gods, horrible and sacred a little book! Which of course you sent to your Catullus immediately, so that he would die on Saturnalia, best of days! No witty one, this will not end thus for you.
Nam si luxerit ad librariorum curram scrinia, Caesios, Aquinos,
Suffenum, omnia colligam venena. Ac te his suppliciis remunerabor.
For if it will have become light, I will run to the bookcases of the booksellers, I will collect Cassius, Aquinus and Suffenus, all the poisons and I will pay back you with these punishments.
Vos hinc interea valete abite illuc, unde malum pedem attulistis, saecli incommoda, pessimi poetae.
Meanwhile goodbye to you, afflictions of the age, the worst poets and go away from here to that place from where you brought your bad foot.
