Catullus+77


 * Catullus 77**

//Rufus my friend having been trusted by me in vain and in vain//
 * Rufe mihi frustra ac nequiquam credite amice**

//(in vain? rather with a great price and great distress),//
 * (frustra? immo magno cum pretio atque malo),**

//did you, in this way, creep under me, and, consuming my intestines,//
 * sicine subrepsti mi atque intestina perurens**

//alas, did you snatch all my good things from miserable me?//
 * ei misero eripuisti omnia nostra bona?**

//You snatched, alas alas, cruel poison (vocative! he's calling Rufus "cruel poison") of my life//
 * 5 Eripuisti, heu heu nostrae crudele venenum**

//alas, alas, plague of our friendship.//
 * vitae, heu heu nostrae pestis amicitiae.**