Catullus+22

choliambic
 * Catullus 22**

//That Suffenus, O Varus, whom you know well//
 * Suffenus iste, Vare, quem probe nosti,**

//is a charming man and witty and urbane,//
 * homo est venustus et dicax et urbanus,**

//and at the same time, he makes very many verses by far.//
 * idemque longe plurimos facit versus.**

//I think that thousands, either ten or more, were written down by him,// - illi - dative
 * puto esse ego illi milia aut decem aut plura**

//nor related/published thus, as it happens, on palimpsest://
 * perscripta, nec sic ut fit in palimpsesto**

//royal papyrus sheets, new rolls,// - relata - supply esse - perfect passive participle
 * relata: cartae regiae, novae libri,**

//new knobs, red straps for the membrane,//
 * novi umbilici, lora rubra, membranae,**

//all arranged with lead and smoothed with pumice stone.//
 * derecta plumbo et pumice omnia aequata.**

//When you read these things, that charming and urbane// - legas - subjunctive
 * haec cum legas tu, bellus ille et urbanus**

//Suffenus seems an ordinary goat-herd or ditch digger//
 * Suffenus unus caprimulgus aut fossor**

//on the other hand: He is different and he changes so much.//
 * rursus videtur: tantum abhorret ac mutat.**

//What should we think this is? The same man who just now seemed a wit// (putemus- deliberative subjunctive)
 * hoc quid putemus esse? qui modo scurra**

//or if anything more learned than this thing,// - hac re - ablative
 * aut siquid hac re scitius videbatur,**

//he is more witless than the witless country side.//
 * idem inficeto est inficetior rure,**

//As soon as he touched poems, and the same (guy)// - poemata - acc. pl. - attigit - perfect
 * simul poemata attigit, neque idem umquam**

//is not equally happy as when he writes a poem//
 * aeque est beatus ac poema cum scribit:**

//As he rejoices so much in himself and he himself admires himself so much.//
 * tam gaudet in se tamque se ipse miratur.**

//Clearly we all deceived the same way//
 * nimirum idem omnes fallimur, neque est quisquam**

//nor is there anyone whom you are not able to see as a Suffenus in some situation.//
 * quem non in aliqua re videre Suffenum**

//His own error is attributed to everyone;//
 * possis. suus cuique attributus est error;**

//but we do not see what [part] of the backpack is on our back.//
 * sed non videmus manticae quod in tergo est.**