Catullus+8


 * Catullus 8**

//Miserable Catullus, you should stop being a fool,//
 * Miser Catulle, desinas ineptire,**

//and that which you see to have perished you should consider lost.//
 * et quod vides perisse perditum ducas.**

//The bright suns once shone for you,//
 * fulsere quondam candidi tibi soles,**

//when you used to come to where the girl was leading//
 * cum ventitabas quo puella ducebat**

//loved by us as much as no girl will be loved.//
 * amata nobis quantum amabitur nulla.**

//There when those many funny things were happening,//
 * ibi illa multa cum iocosa fiebant,**

//which you were wanting and the girl was not refusing//
 * quae tu volebas nec puella nolebat,**

//The bright suns shone truly for you.//
 * fulsere vere candidi tibi soles.**

//Now at last she does not want; you also, powerless,// do not want
 * nunc iam illa non vult; tu quoque inpote ,**

//And do not follow she who flees, nor be love-sick,//
 * nec quae fugit sectare, nec miser vive,**

//But endure with a stubborn mind, be resolute.//
 * sed obstinata mente perfer, obdura.**

//Good-bye, [my] girlfriend. Now Catullus is resolute,//
 * vale, puella. iam Catullus obdurat,**

//Neither does he miss you, nor will he woo [you] unwilling.//
 * nec te requiret nec rogabit invitam.**

//But you will be in pain, when you will never again be wooed.//
 * at tu dolebis, cum rogaberis nulla.**

//Wicked, woe to you! What life remains for you?//
 * scelesta, vae te! quae tibi manet vita?**

//Who now will approach you? To whom will you seem beautiful?//
 * quis nunc te adibit? cui videberis bella?**

//Whom now will you love? Whose will you be talked said to be?//
 * quem nunc amabis? cuius esse diceris?**

//Whom will you kiss? Whose lips will you bite?//
 * quem basiabis? cui labella mordebis?**

//But you, Catullus, be thoroughly stubborn.//
 * at tu, Catulle, destinatus obdura.**