Latin - Cambridge School Classics Project

Catullus, Poem 5 (with numbered translation)1 2 3 4 5Let us live my Lesbia and let us lovevivamus mea Lesbia, atque amemus,9 6 11 10the rumours and old men of rather strictrumoresque senum severiorum8 12 7 13 |all at a single let us value asomnes unius aestimemus assis!1 3 4 5 2 |Suns set and rise again cansoles occidere et redire possunt:1 2 3 6 4 5for us when once has fallen the brief lightnobis cum semel occidit brevis lux, 59 10= 8 7 10= |must benight everlasting one spent asleepnox est perpetua una dormienda.1 2 4 3 5 6Give me kisses a thousand then a hundredda mi basia mille, deinde centum,7 9 8 10 11 12then thousand another then a second hundreddein mille altera, dein secunda centum,13 14 15 16 17 18 |then yet another thousand then a hundreddeinde usque altera mille, deinde centum.1 2 5 4 3Then when thousands many we have madedein, cum milia multa fecerimus, 106 7 8 9so that we do ...we will mix .. up them ... not knowconturbabimus illa, ne sciamus,10 11 12 13 15 14so that someor... not one evil be jealous canaut ne quis malus invidere possit,16 19 17 18 20hewhen so many knows are kissescum tantum sciat esse basiorum.WJEC Level 2 Latin Literature Unit 9541 Love and Marriage 21