Catullus+64.132-157


 * Catullus 64.132-157**

//Have you, unfaithful, left me, having been carried off// //from the ancestral altars////,//
 * “sicine me patriis avectam, perfide, ab aris,**

//Oh treacherous Theseus, on a deserted beach?//
 * perfide, deserto liquisti in litore, Theseu?**

//Thus departing, with the divine power of the gods neglected,//
 * sicinie discedens neglecto numine divum,**

//do you, oh unmindful person, carry the accursed false oaths home?//
 * 135 immemor a! devota domum periuria portas?**

//Was no thing able to change the plan of your [Theseus's] cruel mind?//
 * nullane res potuit crudelis flectere mentis**

//Was no pity available to you,// tibi-Dat. of Possession (I'm sorry -Sam)
 * consilium? tibi nulla fuit clementia praesto,**

//so that your cruel breast would be willing to pity us/me?//
 * immite ut nostri vellet miserescere pectus?**

//But you have not given me these things, formerly having been promised// (But you have not given me these things once promised with your seductive voice)
 * at non haec quondam blanda promissa dedisti**

//by your seductive voice, nor did you order miserable (me) to hope for these things,//
 * 140 voce mihi, non haec miseram sperare iubebas,**

//but (to hope) for happy marriages, but (to hope) for a wished for wedding,//
 * sed conubia laeta, sed optatos hymenaeos,**

//which things, all empty, the airy winds tear to pieces.//
 * quae cuncta aerii discerpunt irrita venti.**

//Now already let no woman trust a swearing man,//
 * nunc iam nulla viro iuranti femina credat,**

//Let no (woman) hope that the speeches of man are faithful,//
 * nulla viri speret sermones esse fideles,**

//For whom, while wishing for something, the mind has an over-powering desire to grab [it].// (Whose mind, while wishing for something...)
 * 145 quis dum aliquid cupiens animus praegestit apisci,**

//They fear to swear nothing, they refrain from promising nothing;//
 * nil metuunt iurare, nihil promittere parcunt;**

//but as soon as the lust of the desiring mind has been satisfied,//
 * sed simul ac cupidae mentis satiata libido est,**

//They fear words in no way, they care for false oaths in no way.//
 * dicta nihil metuere, nihil periuria curant.**

//Certainly I have snatched you, turning in the middle of the turbine of death,//
 * certe ego te in medio versantem turbine leti**

//and I have decided to lose a brother,//
 * 150 eripui, et potius germanum amittere crevi**

//rather than to lack you, false, in this final moment.//
 * quam tibi fallaci supremo in tempore dessem.**

//In return for which I will be given as prey to be torn to pieces by the wild beasts//
 * pro quo dliaceranda feris dabor alitibusque**

//and the large birds////, and I, dead, will not be buried with the earth having been thrown on.//
 * praeda, neque iniecta tumulabor mortua terra.**

//What sort of lioness gave birth to you under a lonely cliff,//
 * quaenam te genuit sola sub rupe leaena,**

//which ocean spat you, having been conceived, from its foamy waves,//
 * 155 quod mare conceptum spumantibus exspuit undis,**

//which Syrtis, which predatory Scylla, which dreadful Charybdis spat you out,//
 * quae Syrtis, quae Scylla rapax, quae vasta Charybdis,**

//you who return such rewards for sweet life?//
 * talia qui reddis pro dulci praemia vita?**