Catullus+84


 * Catullus 84**

//Arrius was saying "hadvantages," if ever he wished to say "advantages"//
 * Chommoda dicebat, si quando commoda vellet**

//and "hambushes" (if he ever wished to says) "ambushes,"//
 * dicebat, et insidias Arrius hinsidias,**

//and at that time he was wishing that he had spoke remarkably well//
 * et tum mirifice sperabat se esse locutum**,

//when he had said as loudly as he could "hambush."//
 * cum quantum poterat dixerat hinsidias.**

//I believe, in this way his mother, in this way his free uncle,//
 * 5 Credo, sic mater, sic liber avunculus eius,**

//in this way the maternal grandfather and grandmother had said.//
 * sic maternus avus dixerat atque avia.**

//with this having been sent into Syria the ears had found relief for all://
 * Hoc misso in Syriam requierant omnibus aures:**

//they were hearing these same words gently and lightly//
 * audibant eadem haec leniter et leviter,**

//and they were not fearing such words for themselves after a time//
 * nec sibi postilla metuebant talia verba,**

//when suddenly a horrible message was brought//
 * 10 cum subito affertur nuntius horribilis,**

//that the Ionian wave, after Arrius had gone there//
 * Ionios fluctus, postquam illuc Arrius isset,**

//now it is now not Ionian but Hionian.//
 * iam non Ionios esse sed Hionios.**