Catullus+50

hendecasyllabic
 * Catullus 50**

//Yesterday, Licinius we, at leisure,//
 * Hesterno, Licini, die otiosi**

//played much on my wax tablets.//
 * multum lusimus in meis tabellis,**

//as soon as it had been agreed to be frivolous.// - convenerat - pluperfect
 * ut convenerat esse delicatos:**

//Both of us writing little verses//
 * scribens versiculos uterque nostrum**

//were playing with a meter now this, now that,//
 * ludebat numero modo hoc modo illoc,**

//returning mutually through joke and wine//
 * reddens mutua per iocum atque vinum.**

//and then I left from there inflamed by your charm//
 * atque illinc abii tuo lepore**

//and cleverness, Licinius.//
 * incensus, Licini, facetiisque,**

//so that neither would food relieve miserable me.//
 * ut nec me miserum cibus iuvaret**

//nor would sleep touch my eyes with quiet//
 * nec somnus tegeret quiete ocellos,**

//but wild with fury I turn myself on the whole bed//
 * sed toto indomitus furore lecto**

//wanting to see light//
 * versarer, cupiens videre lucem,**

//so that I might talk with you and at the same time be with you// - histeron proterion (spelling?) - first before last
 * ut tecum loquerer simulque ut esse.**

//but, after the limbs tired from labor,//
 * at defessa labore membra postquam**

//were lying half dead on the little bed//
 * semimortua lectulo iacebant,**

//This, poem. pleasant friend, I made for you//
 * hoc, iucunde, tibi poema feci,**

//out of which you might see my grief//
 * ex quo perspiceres meum dolorem.**

//Now beware of being reckless (beware that you be bold),//
 * nunc audax cave sis, precesque nostras,**

//and beware of spurning our prayers, we beg, darling.//
 * oramus, cave despuas, ocelle,**

//lest Nemesis exacts punishments from you//
 * ne poenas Nemesis reposcat a te.**

//the goddess is violent; make sure you do not offend her.//
 * est vemens dea; laedere hanc caveto.**