Catullus+14

hendecasyllabic
 * Catullus 14**

//If I did not love you more than my eyes//
 * Ni te plus oculis meis amarem,**

//oh most delightful Calvus, because of that gift//
 * iucundissime Calve, munere isto**

//I would hate you with the hatred of Vatinius//
 * odissem te odio Vatiniano**

//for what did I do or what did I say,//
 * nam quid feci ego quidve sum locutus,**

//for which you would destroy me utterly with so many poets?//
 * cur me tot male perderes poetis?**

//Let the gods give many bad things to that client,// - dent - present subjunctive - jussive
 * isti di mala multa dent clienti,**

//who sent you so many wicked things.//
 * qui tantum tibi misit impiorum.**

//But if, as I suspect,// - novum ac repertum - hendiadys - expression of one idea through two words
 * quod si, ut suspicor, hoc novum ac repertum**

//Sulla the elementary school teacher gave this newly discovered gift to you,//
 * munus dat tibi Sulla litterator,**

//it is not badly for me, but well and fortunate//
 * non est mi male, sed bene ac beate,**

//because your labors are not wasted.// - dispereunt - intransitive verb - historical present (?sry...can't read my own handwriting)
 * quod non dispereunt tui labores.**

//Oh great gods, horrible and sacred little book!// - acc. of exclamation - libellum - dimutive
 * di magni, horribilem et sacrum libellum!**

//which you of course have sent to your Catullus//
 * quem tu scilicet ad tuum Catullus**

//so that he would die on the very next day// - misti - perfect - die - abl. of time when
 * misti continuo, ut die periret**

//on the festival of Saturn the best of days!//
 * Saturnalibus optimo dierum!**

//Thus these things, deceitful one, will not go away for you.// - non non is just repetition - salse could also be false (false in our text) - vocative
 * non non hoc tibi, salse, sic abibit.**

//for, if it will have lightened (when the sun rises),//
 * nam, si luxerit, ad librariorum**

//I will hurry to the book seller; I will gather together Caesius, Aquinus,//
 * curram scrinia; Caesios, Aquinos,**

//Suffenus, all of the poisons// - colligam - future
 * Suffenum, omnia colligam venena,**

//and I will pay you back with these punishments.//
 * ac te his suppliciis remunerabor.**

//Goodbye, and go away from here to that place,//
 * vos hinc interea valete abite**

//from which you brought back that bad foot,//
 * illuc, unde malum pedem attulistis,**

//the misfortune of the age, worst of poets.//
 * saecli incommoda, pessimi poetae.**