Catullus+76

(The translation in brackets is what y'all did in class; it's quite good, but the translation below the one in brackets is what I put up and might be safer. - McG)

//[If there is any pleasure for the recollecting man (it is) previous good deeds,]// //If there is any pleasure to a man recording prior//
 * Si qua recordanti benefacta priora voluptas**

//[when he thinks himself to be pious,]// //good deeds, when he thinks that he (has been and) is dutiful,//
 * est homini, cum se cogitat esse pium,**

//[and neither to have violate sacred faith nor to have abused in any treaty]// //and that he has not violated sacred honor/trust/faith, nor has he abused//
 * nec sanctam violasse fidem, nec foedere nullo**

//[the power of the gods for the purpose of deceiving men,]// //the divinity of the gods in any treaty for the purpose of deceiving men,//
 * divum ad fallendos numine abusum homines**

//[many pleasures having been prepared remain in the long age, Catullus,]// //many joys remain prepared for you in a long age/in the long years to come, Catullus,//
 * multa parata manent in longa aetate, Catulle,**

//[out of this ungrateful love for you.]// - Translation of the Translation: If you've done good, don't worry. You'll be happy in that. //from this ungrateful love/love that has been received with no gratitude.//
 * ex hoc ingrato gaudia amore tibi.**

//[For whatever men are able to either say]// //For whatever men are able either to say or do well for anyone//
 * Nam quaecumque homines bene cuiquam aut dicere possunt**

//[or do well to anyone, these things are said and done by you,]// //these things have been said and done by you.//
 * aut facere, hae a te dictaque factaque sunt,**

//[all of which perish having been entrusted to an ungrateful mind.]// //All things have perished which were entrusted to the ungrateful mind.//
 * omnia quae ingratae perierunt credita menti.**

//[Why should you now torture yourself?]// //Therefore why should you torture yourself further?//
 * Quare cur tete iam amplius excrucies?**

//[Why are you not determined in your spirit and why don't you take yourself back from where you are]// //Why not, indeed do you make firm in your mind and from there yourself withdraw yourself//
 * Quin tu animo offirmas atque istinc te ipse reducis**

//[and since the gods are unwilling why do you no cease to be miserable?]// //and cease, with the gods unwilling, to be miserable?//
 * et dis invitis desinis esse miser?**

//[It is difficult to suddenly put away long love.]// //It is difficult to suddenly lay down a long love,//
 * Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem.**

//[It is difficult, but]// //it is difficult, but that you should finish this is pleasing;//
 * Difficile est, verum hoc qua lubet efficias;**

//this is (your) one salvation, this must be overcome by you.//
 * una salus haec est, hoc est tibi pervincendum**

//you should do this, whether it is not possible or whether it is possible.//
 * hoc facias, sive id non pote sive pote.**

//O gods, if it is yours to feel pity, or if ever you have borne for anyone//
 * O di, si vestrum est misereri, aut si quibus umquam**

//the final aid already in death itself,//
 * extremam iam ipsa in morte tulistis opem,**

//Gaze upon me, miserable, and, if I have lived my life purely,//
 * me miserum aspicite et, si vitam puriter egi,**

//snatch this plague and ruin from me,//
 * eripite hanc pestem perniciemque mihi,**

//which creeping under me as a numbness in the bottom of my limbs//
 * quae mihi subrepens imos ut torpor in artus**

//has driven joys from my whole heart.//
 * expulit ex omni pectore laetitias.**

//I do not seek that already, that she choose me in return,//
 * Non iam illud quaero, contra ut me diligat illa,**

//or, what is not possible, that she want to be chaste;//
 * aut, quod non potis est, esse pudica velit;**

//I myself choose to be strong and to put aside this horrible disease.//
 * ipse valere opto et taetrum hunc deponere morbum.**

//O gods, return this to me for my devotion.//
 * O di, reddite mi hoc pro pietate mea.**