Catullus 22

Question 1

non non hoc tibi, salse, sic abibit.

Answer 1

It won’t end like this for you, salty/funny/witty guy.

Question 2

nam si luxerit ad librariorum

curram scrinia,

Answer 2

For, if there is light, I will run to the

shelves of the booksellers,

Question 3

Caesios, Aquinos,

Suffenum, omnia colligam venena.

Answer 3

I will collect all the poisons:

the Caesiuses, the Aquinos, the Suffenuses.

Question 4

ac te his suppliciis remunerabor.

Answer 4

I will repay you with these punishments.

Question 5

vos hinc interea valete abite

Answer 5

Meanwhile you, farewell, go away from here,

Question 6

illuc, unde malum pedem attulistis,

Answer 6

to that place, from where you got your bad foot,

Question 7

saecli incommoda, pessimi poetae.

Answer 7

curses of our age, very bad poets.

Question 8

Suffenus iste, Vare, quem probe nosti,

Answer 8

That Suffenus, Varus, whom you know well,

Question 9

homo est venustus et dicax et urbanus,

Answer 9

is a man charming, and witty, and sophisticated/urbane,

Question 10

idemque longe plurimos facit versus.

Answer 10

and the same man makes very many verses by far.

Question 11

puto esse ego illi milia aut decem aut plura

Answer 11

I think that there are thousands of verses, either 10,000 or more

Question 12

perscripta, nec sic ut fit in palimpsesto

relata:

Answer 12

written out by that man, not thus as it happens written on a palimpsest:

Question 13

cartae regiae, novi libri,

novi umbilici, lora rubra membranae,

Answer 13

royal papers, new books,

new knobs, red straps of the book cover,

Question 14

derecta plumbo et pumice omnia aequata.

Answer 14

all sheets having been ruled with lead and made smooth with pumice stone.

Question 15

haec cum legas tu, bellus ille et urbanus

Answer 15

When you read these things, that handsome and sophisticated

Question 16

Suffenus unus caprimulgus aut fossor

rursus videtur:

Answer 16

Suffenus seems again/on the contrary to be alone a goatmilker/goatherder or a ditchdigger:

Question 17

tantum abhorret ac mutat.

Answer 17

so much does he shrink (away from himself) and change.

Question 18

hoc quid putemus esse? qui modo scurra

Answer 18

Why do we think that this is? (This man) who recently seemed a fashionable man about town,

Question 19

aut si quid hac re scitius videbatur,

Answer 19

or if any thing seemed more polished than this thing,

Question 20

idem infaceto est infacetior rure,

Answer 20

the same man is more dull than the dull countryside

Question 21

simul poemata attigit, neque idem umquam

Answer 21

as soon as he touches poems, nor is that same man

Question 22

aeque est beatus ac poema cum scribit:

Answer 22

not ever equally as happy as when he is writing a poem:

Question 23

tam gaudet in se tamque se ipse miratur.

Answer 23

he rejoices so in himself and he himself so marvels at himself.

Question 24

nimirum idem omnes fallimur, neque est quisquam

Answer 24

No wonder we are all deceived in the same way, nor is there anyone

Question 25

quem non in aliqua re videre Suffenum

possis.

Answer 25

Whom you could see not to be Suffenus in some thing.

Question 26

suus cuique attributus est error;

Answer 26

To each person has been allotted their own mistake;

Question 27

sed non videmus manticae quod in tergo est.

Answer 27

But we do not see what of the backpack is on our back.