Catullus+116


 * Catullus 116**

//Often searching with the keen mind hunting//
 * Saepe tibi studioso animo venante requirens**

//so that I can send songs of Battia to you,//
 * carmina uti possem mittere Battiadae,**

//so that I will conciliate you to me, or so that you would not try//
 * qui te lenirem nobis, neu conarere**

//to send hostile javelins all the way into my head,//
 * tela infesta meum mittere in usque caput,**

//I see that this labor has been taken up by me in vain,//
 * 5 hunc video mihi nunc frustra sumptum esse laborem,**

//Gellius, and that my prayers had not prevailed from here.//
 * Gelli, nec nostras hic valuisse preces.**

//In reply we will dodge those of your javelins having been sent,//
 * Contra nos tela ista tua evitabimus amitha,**

//but having been pierced (by our spears) you will give penalty.//
 * at fixus nostris tu dabis supplicium.**