Catullus+5


 * Catullus 5**

//Let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love,// - vivamus and amemus - present subjunctive - hortatory - this is the first time we see Lesbia's name mentioned
 * Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus,**

//And let us value all rumors of the rather severe old men// - severiorum - gen. pl. - comparative
 * rumoresque senum severiorum**

//At one cent.// - unius refers to assis - gen. of indefinite value
 * omnes unius aestimemus assis!**

//The suns can set and return;//
 * soles occidere et redire possunt;**

//When once a brief light has set for us,// - nobis - dative of agent - brevis refers to lux
 * nobis, cum semel occidit brevis lux,**

//One perpetual night must be slept.// - dormienda - gerundive of obligation - est goes with dormienda - perpetua una goes with nox
 * nox est perpetua una dormienda.**

//Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred//
 * da mi basia mille, deinde centum,**

//Then another thousand, then a second hundred,//
 * dein mille altera, dein secunda centum,**

//Then finally another thousand, and then a hundred;//
 * deinde usque altera mille, deinde centum;**

//Then, when we have made many thousands,// - all the dien and diende - anaphora
 * dein, cum milia multa fecerimus,**

//We will mix them all up, so we do not know those,//
 * conturbabimus, illa ne sciamus,**

//Or so that not any bad person is able to envy// - quis after ne - aliquid
 * aut ne quis malus invidere possit**

//When he knows there is so great a number of kisses. -// partitive genitive
 * cum tantum sciat esse basiorum.**