Poem 14: Latin Translation

Question 1

Furi et Aureli comites Catulli, sive in extremos penetrabit Indos, (1-2)

Answer 1

Furius and Aurelius, friends of Catullus, whether he goes off to remotest India

Question 2

litus ut longe resonante Eoa tunditur unda, (3-4)

Answer 2

Where the shore is pounded by the Easter wave as it resounds far and wide

Question 3

sive in Hyrcanos Arabesve molles, seu Sagas sagittiferosve Parthos, (5-6)

Answer 3

Or to the land of the Hyrcanians or the soft Arabs or of the Sagae or the Parthians with their arrows

Question 4

sive quae septemgeminus colorat aequora Nilus, (7-8)

Answer 4

Or where the seven-mouthed Nile colours the sea

Question 5

sive trans altas gradietur Alpes, Caesaris visens monimenta magni (9-10)

Answer 5

Or whether he crosses the high Alps going to see the monuments of great Caesar

Question 6

Gallicum Rhenum horribile aequor ultimosque Britannos, (11-12)

Answer 6

The Rhine bordering on Gaul, and the dreadful sea, and the Britons at the end of the world

Question 7

omnia haec, quaecumque feret voluntas caelitum, temptare simul parati, (13-14)

Answer 7

Whatever the will of the gods brings you, who are ready to tackle all of these things

Question 8

pauca nuntiate meae puellae non bona dicta. (15-16)

Answer 8

Announce to my girl this brief message statements but not well-intentioned

Question 9

cum suis vivat valeatque moechis, quos simul complexa tenet trecentos, (17-18)

Answer 9

Let her live and let her ‘farewell’ with her adulterers who she embraces and hold all at once - 300 of them

Question 10

nullum amans vere, sed identidem omnium ilia rumpens; (19-20)

Answer 10

Loving none truly, but repeatedly bursting the guts of all of them;

Question 11

nec meum respectet, ut ante, amorem, qui illius culpa cecidit velut prati (21-22)

Answer 11

Let her not look for my love, as she did before, that love which she cut down through her fault just like at the edge of a meadow

Question 12

ultimi flos, praetereunte postquam tactus aratro est. (23-24)

Answer 12

A flower (is cut down) after it has been touched by the passing plough