Catullus 5

Question 1

Vivamus mea Lesbia, atque amemus,

Answer 1

Let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love,

Question 2

rumoresque senum severiorum

Answer 2

and let us count the gossip of over-strict

Question 3

omnes unius aestimemus assis!

Answer 3

Old men as all worth one penny!

Question 4

soles occidere et redire possunt:

Answer 4

The Sun can set and return again;

Question 5

nobis cum semel occidit brevis lux,

Answer 5

when our short light has once set

Question 6

nox est perpetua una dormienda.

Answer 6

It is one eternal night to be slept through

Question 7

da mi basia mille, deinde centum,

Answer 7

Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred,

Question 8

dein mille altera, dein secunda centum,

Answer 8

then another thousand, then a second hundred,

Question 9

deinde usque altera mille, deinde centum.

Answer 9

Then at once another thousand, then a hundred.

Question 10

dein, cum milia multa fecerimus,

Answer 10

Then, when we have made many thousands

Question 11

conturbabimus illa, ne sciamus,

Answer 11

we will muddle up the accounts, so we do not know

Question 12

aut ne quis malus inuidere possit,

Answer 12

or so that no evil person can give us the evil eye

Question 13

cum tantum sciat esse basiorum.

Answer 13

When he know that there are so many kisses.