Catullus+35


 * Catullus 35**

//Papyrus, I would like you to say//
 * Poetae tenero, meo sodali,**

//to the tender poet, Caecilius, my friend,//
 * velim Caecilio, papyre, dicas**

//come to Verona, leaving behind the walls of Novus Comus//
 * Veronam veniat, Novi relinquens**

//and the shore of Larius//
 * Comi moenia Lariumque litus:**

//for I wish that he accept//
 * nam quasdam volo cogitationes**

//certain thoughts for his and my friend.//
 * amici accipiat sui meique.**

//Therefore, if he is wise, he will devour the road//
 * quare, si sapiet, viam vorabit,**

//Even if the fair-skinned girl//
 * quamvis candida milies puella**

//will call him, going, back a thousand times//
 * euntem revocet, manusque collo**

//and throwing both hands on his neck, asks him to wait.//
 * ambas iniciens roget morari.**

//And she now, if true things are announced to me//
 * quae nunc, si mihi vera nuntiantur,**

//she is madly in love with him with a raging love://
 * illum deperit impotente amore:**

//for from which time she read//
 * nam quo tempore legit incohatam**

//The Begun Mistress of Dindymus, from this time//
 * Dindymi dominam, ex eo misellae**

//fires have been eating out the inner marrow of the wretched girl.//
 * ignes interiorem edunt medullam.**

//I forgive you, girl more learned than a Sapphic muse//
 * ignosco tibi, Sapphica puella**

//for the Great Mother has been//
 * musa doctior: est enim venuste**

//begun charmingly by Caecilius.//
 * Magna Caecilio incohata Mater.**