Catullus 43 Flashcards

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Salve, nec minimo puella naso nec bello pede nec nigris ocellis nec longis digitis nec ore sicco nec sane nimis elegante lingua.

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Hello, girl not with the smallest nose, nor beautiful feet, nor dark little eyes, nor long fingers, nor a dry mouth, nor surely with too elegant a tongue.

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Decoctoris amica Formiani, ten provincia narrat esse bellam Tecum Lesbia nostra comparatur? O saeclum insapiens et infacetum!

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The girlfriend of the bankrupt man, Marmurra, does the province say that you are beautiful? Is our Lesbia compared with you? Oh unwise and un-witty age!

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