L Catullus Struggles with Love (continued)

Question 1

o di, si vestrum est misereri, aut si quibus unquam extremam iam ipsa in morte tulustis opem

Answer 1

O gods, if it is your habit to pity, or if you have ever brought final help to those now in death itself,

Question 2

me miserum aspicite et, si vitam puriter egi,

Answer 2

look upon me in my misery and, if I have lived my life purely,

Question 3

eripte hance pestem perniciemque mihi,

Answer 3

snatch this plague and destruction from me,

Question 4

quae mihi subrepens imos ut topor in artus

Answer 4

which creeping in my inmost limbs like paralysis

Question 5

epulit ex omni pectore laetitias.

Answer 5

has driven joys from all my heart.

Question 6

non iam illud quaero, contra me ut diligat illa,

Answer 6

Now I do not ask for that, that she loves me in return,

Question 7

aut, quod non potis est, esse pudica velit:

Answer 7

or, what is not possible, that she is willing to be chaste;

Question 8

ipse valere opto et taetrum hunc deponere morbum.

Answer 8

I myself desire to be healthy and to lay down this foul disease.

Question 9

o di, reddite mi hoc pro pietate mea.

Answer 9

O gods, give this back to me in return for my good behaviour.