Sulpicia Birthday Poems

Question 1

Invisus natalis adest, qui rure molesto // et sine Cerintho tristis agendus erit.

Answer 1

My hated birthday is here, which must be spent sad in the bothersome country and without Cerinthus.

Question 2

Dulcius urbe quid est? An villa sit apla puellae // atque Arrentino frigidus amnis agro?

Answer 2

What is sweeter than the city? Is a villa suited for a girl and the cold river in the Arrentium field?

Question 3

Iam, nimium Mesalla mei studiose, quiescas, // heu tempestivae saeve, propinque, viae!

Answer 3

Now, Mesalla, excessively attentive to me, may you stop! O timely journey and cruel relative!

Question 4

Hic animum sensusque meos abducta relinquo // arbitrio quamvis non sinis esse meo.

Answer 4

Abducted, I leave my mind and feelings here although you do not allow me to be here by my own judgment.

Question 5

Scis iter ex animo sublatum triste puellae? // Natali Romae iam licet esse suo.

Answer 5

Do you know that the sad journey has been removed from the girl’s mind? Now it is permitted to be in Rome for her own birthday.

Question 6

Omnibus ille dies nobis natalis agatur, // qui nec opinanti nunc tibi forte venit.

Answer 6

Let that birthday be celebrated together by us all, which comes to an unexpecting you by chance.