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Tuesday 20 April 2010

In the flanks of death you will find him

I have work to do.
Lots of depressing work so Im gonna do something maybe helpful about it....
IM GOING TO SHARE IT WITH YOU !!
The translation is of the above words in yellow :)


Catullus, Poem 5

Vivamus mea Lesbia, Atque amemus,

Live my Lesbia, And love,
rumoresque senum severiorum

Rumours and olf men rather strict
omnes unius aestimemus assis!

all one value as
soles occidere et redire possunt:

suns set/fall and rise can again
nobis cum semel occidit brevis lux,

us when at last sets short light
nox est perpetua una dormienda.

night everlasting one must be slept through.
da mi basia mille, deinde centum,

give me kisses thousand then hundred
dein mille altera, dein secunda centum,

then yet thousand other then second hundred
deinde usque altera mille, deinde centum.

then yet other thousand, then hundred.
dein, cum milia multa fecerimus,

then, when thousand many make,
conturbabimus illa, ne sciamus,

mix up them, not know,
aut ne quis malus invidere possit,
or not someone evil to be jealous can

cum tantum sciat esse basiorum.
when so many know there are kisses


Let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love,
and let us value all the rumours of
rather strict old men at one as! (as is a penny)

Suns can set and rise again:
when at last our short light sets,
one everlasting night must be slept through.

Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred,
then another thousand, then a second hundred,
then yet another thousand, then a hundred.

Then when we have made to many thousands (of kisses)
we will mix them up, so that we dont know,
or so that someone evil is not able to be jealous,
when he knows there are so many kisses.

Aaww what a romantic. xXx

1 comment:

  1. Thanks for posting this. I left my book at school so I used this for learning it. :)

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