Catullus+44

choliambic
 * Catullus 44**

//O our farm whether Sabine or belonging to Tibur//
 * O funde noster seu Sabine seu Tiburs**

//(for they insist that you are of Tibur, to whom it is not// - double dative
 * (nam te esse Tiburtem autumant, quibus non est**

//pleasing to harm Catullus; but to whom it is pleasing,//
 * cordi Catullum laedere; at quibus cordi est,**

//they assert for any amount it is of Sabine),//
 * quovis Sabinum pignore esse contendunt),**

//but whether Sabine or more truly of Tibur// - comparative adverb
 * sed seu Sabine sive verius Tiburs,**

//I was gladly in your suburban villa,// - libenter - adverb
 * fui libenter in tua suburbana**

//and I drove out a bad cough from my chest,// - pectore - ablative of separation
 * villa, malamque pectore expuli tussim,**

//which my stomach gave to me not undeservingly// - litotes
 * non inmerenti quam mihi meus venter,**

//while I hungered after expensive dinners// - dedit - hyperbaton - far away
 * dum sumptuosas appeto, dedit, cenas:**

//for, while I wished to be a guest of Sestius,//
 * nam, Sestianus dum volo esse conviva,**

//I read a speech against Antium, a candidate,// - petiorem referst to Antium
 * orationem in Antium petitorem**

//full of poison and plague.//
 * plenam veneni et pestilentiae legi.**

//Here the cold sickness and the constant cough//
 * hic me gravedo frigida et frequens tussis**

//shook me constantly, until I fled to your bosom//
 * quassavit usque, dum in tuum sinum fugi,**

//and I restored myself with leisure and stinging nettle(s).// - recuravi - zeugma
 * et me recuravi otioque et urtica.**

//Therefore, I, renewed, give the greatest thanks to you -// grates - archaic
 * quare refectus maximas tibi grates**

//because you did not punish my fault.//
 * ago, meum quod non es ulta peccatum**.

//Now I do not offer a prayer, if I will have received//
 * nec deprecor iam, si nefaria scripta**

//the terrible writtings of Sestius, to prevent the frigidity//
 * Sesti recepso, quin gravedinem et tussim**

//from bringing the sickness and the cough to me, but to Sestius himself//
 * non mi, sed ipsi Sestio ferat frigus,**

//who only calls me, when I have read his bad book.//
 * qui tunc vocat me, cum malum librum legi.**