Catullus 35

Question 1

Poetae tenero, meo sodali, velim Caecilio, papyre, dicas Veronam veniat, Novi relinquens Comi moenia Lariumque litus: nam quasdam volo cogitationes amici accipiat sui meique.

Answer 1

I would like you, papyrus to tell the tender poet my comrade Caecilius, to come to Verona, leaving behind the walls of New Comum, for I want him to accept, certain friend and my friend.

Question 2

Quare, si sapiet, viam vorabit, quamvis candida milies puella euntem revocet, manusque collo ambas iniciens roget morari. Quae nunc, si mihi vera nuntiantur, illum deperit impotente amore:

Answer 2

Wherefore, if he will be smart, he will devour the road, although a bright girl might call him back going a thousand times and throwing both hands on his neck asks him to delay, who now if true things are announced to me, she dies with a wild love for that one.

Question 3

nam quo tempore legit incohatum Dindymi dominam, ex eo misellae ignes interiorem edunt medullam. Ignosco tibi, Sapphica puella musa doctior: est enim venuste Magna Caecilio incohata mater.

Answer 3

For from which time, she read the begun mistress of Dindymus, from that time fired consumed the inner marrow of the miserable little girl. I forgive you, girl more learned than the Sapphic muse, for the great mother has been begun charmingly by Caecilius.