Catullus+10


 * Catullus 10**

//My friend Varus had led me, at leisure,//
 * Varus me meus ad suos amores**

//out of the forum to visit his girlfriend,//
 * visum duxerat e foro otiosum,**

//a dear little whore, as she appeared to me at first glance//
 * scortillum, ut mihi tum repente visum est,**

//not truly uncharming nor without beauty.//
 * non sane illepidum neque invenustum.**

//When we arrived here, various speeches happened to us//
 * huc ut venimus, incidere nobis**

//in which, what Bithynia is now;//
 * sermones varii: in quibus, quid esset**

//in what way it held itself;//
 * iam Bithynia; quo modo se haberet;**

//with what kind of money it had benefited me.// 
 * et quonam mihi profuisset aere.**

//I responded, that which was, that there was nothing neither for the natives//
 * respondi, id quod erat, nihil neque ipsis**

//nor for the governors nor the cohort.//
 * nec praetoribus esse nec cohorti,**

//Why anyone should return a more oiled head,//
 * cur quisquam caput unctius referret**,

//especially for whom the praetor was a pervert,//
 * praesertim quibus esset irrumator**

//and nor did he make his cohort of a hair/consider his cohort of any value.//
 * praetor, nec faceret pili cohortem.**

//"But certainly, however," they say/said "that which is said//
 * “at certe tamen,” inquiunt “quod illic**

//to have been born there, you obtained//
 * natum dicitur esse, comparasti**

//men for (the purpose of carrying) a litter." I, so that//
 * ad lecticam homines.” ego, ut puellae**

//I might make myself one rather fortunate to the girl,//
 * unum me facerem beatiorem,**

//said "It was not so badly for me,//
 * “non” inquam “mihi tam fuit maligne,**

//that, because a bad province had fallen (to me)//
 * ut, provincia quod mala incidisset,**

//I was not able to purchase eight proper/straight men."//
 * non possem octo homines parare rectos.”**

//But there was no one to me/I had no one neither here nor there,//
 * at mi nullus erat nec hic neque illic,**

//who was able to place the broken foot of//
 * fractum qui veteris pedem grabati**

//an old cot on his neck.//
 * in collo sibi collocare posset.**

//At this point she, as was fitting a rather opportunistic (girl),//
 * hic illa, ut decuit cinaediorem,**

//said to me, "Please, my Catullus, lend them//
 * “quaeso” inquit mihi, “mi Catulle, paulum**

//a little; for I want to be brought//
 * istos commoda; nam volo ad Serapim**

//to (the temple of) Serapis." "Wait," I said to the girl,//
 * deferri.” “mane,” inquii puellae,**

//"That which I had just said that I have,//
 * “istud quod modo dixeram me habere,**

//reason fled me: my companion -//
 * fugit me ratio: meus sodalis –**

//he is Gaius Cinna - he bought them for himself.//
 * Cinna est Gaius – is sibi paravit.**

//But, whether his or mine, what is it to me?//
 * verum, utrum illius an mei, quid ad me?**

//I use them as well as I have bought them for myself.//
 * utor tam bene quam mihi pararim.**

//But you are badly/very/especially dull and annoying,//
 * sed tu insulsa male et molesta vivis,**

//through whom it is not permitted to be careless."//
 * per quam non licet esse neglegentem.”**