CATULLUS I (dedication poem)

Question 1

Cui dono lepidum novum libellum

Answer 1

to whom do I dedicate (this) charming new little book

Question 2

arida modo pumice expolitum?

Answer 2

just now polished with dry pumice stone?

Question 3

Corneli, tibi: namque tu solebas

Answer 3

to you, Cornelius: and for you were accustomed

Question 4

meas esse aliquid putare nugas.

Answer 4

to think that my trifles were something.

Question 5

Iam tum, cum ausus es unus Italorum

Answer 5

now then, when you one of Italians dared

Question 6

omne aevum tribus explicare cartis…

Answer 6

to unfold all of history in three volumes…

Question 7

Doctis, Iuppiter, et laboriosis!

Answer 7

learned, and full of labor, by Juppiter!

Question 8

Quare habe tibi quidquid hoc libelli—

Answer 8

so have for you whatever this (is) of little book

Question 9

qualecumque, quod, o patrona virgo,

Answer 9

such as it is, which, o patron maiden,

Question 10

plus uno maneat perenne saeclo!

Answer 10

may remain everlasting for more than one generation (age)!