Catullus+11

Sapphic Strophe
 * Catullus 11**

//Furius and Aurelius, friends of Catullus,//
 * Furi et Aureli, comites Catulli,**

//whether he will// //enter the extreme India//
 * sive in extremos penetrabit Indos,**

//where the shore is beaten by the far resounding//
 * litus ut longe resonante Eoa**

//eastern wave.//
 * tunditur unda,**

//or whether he will enter among the Hyrcaians or the soft Arabs//
 * sive in Hyrcanos Arabasve molles,**

//or whether he will enter the Sacer or the arrow-carrying Parthians//
 * seu Sagas sagittiferosve Parthos,**

//or whether he will enter the sea which//
 * sive quae septemgeminus colorat**

//the sevenfold Nile colors//
 * aequora Nilus,**

//or he will walk across the high Alps//
 * sive trans altas gradietur Alpes,**

//going to see the monuments of great Caesar//,
 * Caesaris visens monimenta magni,**

//the Gallic Rhine, the rough sea,//
 * Gallicum Rhenum horribile aequor ulti-**

//and the furthest Britains.//
 * mosque Britannos,**

//prepared to try these things whatever the will//
 * omnia haec, quaecumque feret voluntas**

//of the Gods will bring//
 * caelitum, temptare simul parati,**

//Announce a few not good words//
 * pauca nuntiate meae puellae**

//to my girlfriend//
 * non bona dicta.**

//let her live and be strong with her adulterors//
 * cum suis vivat valeatque moechis,**

//300 of whom she holds in an embrace at the same time,//
 * quos simul complexa tenet trecentos,**

//whereas truly loving no one//
 * nullum amans vere, sed identidem omnium**

//but bursting the groins of all again and again;//
 * ilia rumpens;**

//let her not await my love as before,//
 * nec meum respectet, ut ante, amorem,**

//which has fallen just as a flower of the furthest meadow//
 * qui illius culpa cecidit velut prati**

//because of the fault of that one,//
 * ultimi flos, praetereunte postquam**

//after it was touched by the passing of the plow.//
 * tactus aratro est.**