Catullus

Question 1

citus ut longe resonante Eoa tunditur unda

Answer 1

Where the shore is pounded by the far-resounding eastern wave

Question 2

omnia haec temptare simul parati

Answer 2

Be prepared to tackle all these things together

Question 3

vercordem rixam

Answer 3

Mad quarrel

Question 4

ecquid

Answer 4

At all (interrogatory)

Question 5

quo prodeat ultra

Answer 5

Beyond which he would go

Question 6

Quid facit is?

Answer 6

What is that man doing?

Question 7

Qui ut nihil attingat

Answer 7

Who, as he touches nothing,

Question 8

quantamvis quare sit macer invenies

Answer 8

You will find out as much as you want about why he is slim

Question 9

sane

Answer 9

Certainly

Question 10

tu insulsa male et molesta vivis

Answer 10

But you are uncouth and unsophisticated

Question 11

17.1
O Colonia, quae cupis ponte ludere longo,

Answer 11

O colony, who wish to play on your long bridge,

Question 12

17.2-3
et salire paratum habes, sed vereris inepta
crura ponticuli axulis stantis in redivivis,

Answer 12

And are prepared to leap around, but fear
The unsuitable legs of the poor little bridge, standing on reused planks,

Question 13

17.4-5
ne supinus eat cavaque in palude recumbat:
sic tibi bonus ex tua pons libidine fiat,

Answer 13

That it might go and fall flat on its back and sink into the hollow marsh:
Thus may your bridge be made good for you, as you desire,

Question 14

17.6-7
in quo vel Salisubsali sacra suscipiantur,
munus hoc mihi maximi da, Colonia, risus.

Answer 14

On which even the sacred rites of Salisubsalus may be undertaken,
Give me this gift, colony, of the greatest merriment.

Question 15

17.8-9
quendam municipem meum de tuo volo ponte
ire praecipitem in lutum per caputque pedesque,

Answer 15

I want a certain townsman of mine to go and fall
Head over heels from your bridge into the mud,

Question 16

17.10-11
verum totius ut lacus putidaeque paludis
lividissima maximeque est profunda vorago.

Answer 16

But where the chasm of the whole lake and stinking swamp
Is darkest and most deep

Question 17

17.12-13
insulsissimus est homo, nec sapit pueri instar
bimuli tremula patris dormientis in ulna.

Answer 17

The man is most idiotic, and senseless like a two year old boy
Sleeping on the cradling arm of his father.

Question 18

17.14-15
cui cum sit viridissimo nupta flore puella
et puella tenellulo delicatior haedo,

Answer 18

Who, though he has a wife, a girl in the most blooming flower of youth,
and a girl more frisky than a tender little kid,

Question 19

17.16-17
adservanda nigerrimis diligentius uvis,
ludere hanc sinit ut libet, nec pili facit uni,

Answer 19

Must guard her more carefully than the darkest grapes,
He allows this girl to play around as she wishes, couldn’t care less,

Question 20

17.18-19
nec se sublevat ex sua parte, sed velut alnus
in fossa Liguri iacet suppernata securi,

Answer 20

Nor does he rouse himself of his own accord, but like an alder hamstrung
by a Ligurian axe lies in a ditch,

Question 21

17.20-21
tantundem omnia sentiens quam si nulla sit usquam;
talis iste meus stupor nil videt, nihil audit,

Answer 21

Feeling everything just as much as if she did not exist at all:
Such a kind as that dim-witted friend of mine sees nothing, hears nothing,

Question 22

17.22
ipse qui sit, utrum sit an non sit, id quoque nescit.

Answer 22

Who he himself is, whether he exists or doesn’t exist, he doesn’t know that either.

Question 23

17.23-24
nunc eum volo de tuo ponte mittere pronum,
si pote stolidum repente excitare veternum,

Answer 23

Now I want to send him headfirst from your bridge,
To see if that can suddenly shake up his dull lethargy,

Question 24

17.25-26
et supinum animum in gravi derelinquere caeno,
ferream ut soleam tenaci in voragine mula.

Answer 24

And leave behind his mind flat on its back in the heavy mud,
Just as the mule leaves behind her iron shoe in a clinging chasm.

Question 25

76.1-2
si qua recordanti benefacta priora voluptas
est homini, cum se cogitat esse pium,

Answer 25

If there is any pleasure for a person remembering
his earlier kindnesses, when he considers himself to be faithful,

Question 26

76.3-4
nec sanctam violasse fidem, nec foedere in ullo
divum ad fallendos numine abusum homines,

Answer 26

That he has not broken a sacred oath, nor in any promise
Abused the will of the gods for the purpose of people being deceived,

Question 27

76.5-6
multa parata manent in longa aetate, Catulle,
ex hoc ingrato gaudia amore tibi.

Answer 27

Many joys remain for you, Catullus, in a long life,
Prepared from this ungrateful love.

Question 28

76.7-8
nam quaecumque homines bene cuiquam aut dicere possunt
aut facere, haec a te dictaque factaque sunt:

Answer 28

For whatever people are able either to say or do well for anyone,
These things have both been said and done by you:

Question 29

76.9-10
omnia quae ingratae perierunt credita menti.
quare cur tu te iam amplius excrucies?

Answer 29

All such things have been ruined, having been trusted to an ungrateful mind.
Why therefore now should you torture yourself anymore?

Question 30

76.11-12
quin tu animo offirmas atque istinc teque reducis,
et dis invitis desinis esse miser?

Answer 30

Why not hold fast in your mind and withdraw yourself from that place,
And, with the gods unwilling, cease being miserable?

Question 31

76.13-14
difficile est longum subito deponere amorem,
difficile est, verum hoc qua libet efficias:

Answer 31

It is difficult to suddenly abandon a long love affair,
It is difficult, but nevertheless carry it out some way or other:

Question 32

76.15-16
una salus haec est. hoc est tibi pervincendum,
hoc facias, sive id non pote sive pote.

Answer 32

This is the one salvation. This is for you to accomplish,
You must do this whether it is impossible or possible.

Question 33

76.17-18
o di, si vestrum est misereri, aut si quibus umquam
extremam iam ipsa in morte tulistis opem,

Answer 33

O gods, whether it is within you to pity, or if you ever
Brought help finally to any people already on the point of death,

Question 34

76.19-20
me miserum adspicite et, si vitam puriter egi,
eripite hanc pestem perniciemque mihi,

Answer 34

Pay attention to wretched me, and if I have lived purely,
Snatch away this plague and pestilence from me,

Question 35

76.21-22
quae mihi subrepens imos ut torpor in artus
expulit ex omni pectore laetitias.

Answer 35

Which creeping into my deepest core like a numbness
Has driven out the joys from my whole chest.

Question 36

76.23-24
non iam illud quaero, contra ut me diligat illa,
aut, quod non potis est, esse pudica velit:

Answer 36

I no longer seek this, that she might love me in return,
Or, which is not possible, that she would want to be chaste:

Question 37

76.25-26
ipse valere opto et taetrum hunc deponere morbum.
o di, reddite mi hoc pro pietate mea.

Answer 37

I myself desire to be healthy and to lay aside this abominable disease.
O gods, grant this to me in return for my loyalty.

Question 38

91.1-2
Non ideo, Gelli, sperabam te mihi fidum
in misero hoc nostro, hoc perdito amore fore

Answer 38

It was not for that reason, Gellius, I was hoping that you would be loyal to me
In this wretched, this desperate love of ours,

Question 39

91.3-4
quod te cognossem bene constantemve putarem
aut posse a turpi mentem inhibere probro;

Answer 39

Since I had known you well, or thought you to be reliable,
Or thought you could hold back your mind from vile disgrace;

Question 40

91.5-6
sed neque quod matrem nec germanam esse videbam
hanc tibi, cuius me magnus edebat amor.

Answer 40

But because I saw this girl to be neither your mother
nor your sister, this girl for whom my great passion was consuming me.

Question 41

91.7-8
et quamvis tecum multo coniungerer usu,
non satis id causae credideram esse tibi.

Answer 41

And although I was united with you through a long companionship,
I had not believed that this would be enough of a cause for you.

Question 42

91.9-10
tu satis id duxti: tantum tibi gaudium in omni
culpa est, in quacumque est aliquid sceleris.

Answer 42

You thought that was enough: there is so great a delight for you
in every love-affair, in whatever there is something wicked.

Question 43

107.1-2
Si cui quid cupido optantique obtigit unquam
insperanti, hoc est gratum animo proprie.

Answer 43

If anything has ever occurred to someone desiring and longing for it,
But not expecting it, this is especially welcome to their soul.

Question 44

107.3-4
quare hoc est gratum nobis quoque, carius auro,
quod te restituis, Lesbia, mi cupido.

Answer 44

Therefore this is welcome to me as well, more precious than gold,
Because, Lesbia, you are restoring yourself to me, longing for you.

Question 45

107.5-6
restituis cupido atque insperanti, ipsa refers te
nobis. o lucem candidiore nota!

Answer 45

You restore yourself to a longing and unexpecting man, of your own accord you bring yourself back
to me. O day marked with greater brightness!

Question 46

107.7-8
quis me uno vivit felicior, aut magis hac res
optandas vita dicere quis poterit?

Answer 46

What man lives more fortunately than me alone, or who
will be able to speak of a more desirable life than this?