Catullus 44 Flashcards
O funde noster seu Sabine seu Tiburs (nam te esse Tiburtem autumant, quibus non est cordi Catullum laedere; at quibus cordi est, quovis Sabinum pignore esse contendunt),
Oh our farm, whether Sabine or Tiburtine, (for they claim that you are Tiburtine for when it is not in the heart to harm Catullus, but for whom it is in their heart, they contend that you are Sabine by whatever pledge),
sed seu Sabine sive verius Tiburs, fui libenter in tua suburbana villa, malamque pectore expuli tussim, non inmerenti quam mihi meus venter, dum sumptuosas appeto, dedit, cenas.
But whether Sabine or more truly Tiburtine, I was gladly in your suburban villa and I expelled a bad cough from my chest, which my stomach gave to me, not undeserving, while I seek lavish dinners.
Nam, Sestianus dum volo esse conuiua, orationem in Antium petitorem plenam veneni et pestilentiae legi. Hic me gravedo frigida et frequens tussis quassait usque, dum in tuum sinum fugi, et me recuravi otioque et urtica.
For while I want to be a guest of Sestius, I read his speech, “Against Antius the Candidate”, full of poison and plague. At this point, a frigid cold and frequent cough struck me continually until I fled in to your embrace and I recovered myself with leisure and I cured myself with herbal tea.
Quare refectus maximas tibi grates ago, meum quod non es ulta peccatum. Nec deprecor iam, si nefaria scripta Sesti recepso, quin gravedinem et tussim non mihi, sed ipsi Sestio ferat frigus, qui tunc vocat me, cum malum librum legi.
Wherefore, I give my highest thanks to you because you did not take revenge for my wrong. Now I do not pray, if I have received the wicked writings of Sestius, that the cold brings a cold and a cough not to me but to Sestius himself, who then calls upon me to read the bad book.
