Catullus 5

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Catullus 5 is a poem by Catullus. This poem concerns his love of Lesbia.

Line	Latin text	English translation
1	Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus,	Let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love,
2	rumoresque senum severiorum	and let us value all the rumors
3	omnes unius aestimemus assis!	of rather severe old men as one penny!
4	soles occidere et redire possunt;	Suns are able to set and return;
5	nobis, cum semel occidit brevis lux,	for us, once the brief light sets,
6	nox est perpetua una dormienda.	there is one perpetual night to be slept through.
7	da mi basia mille, dende centum,	Give me one thousand kisses, then one hundred,
8	dein mille altera, dein secunda centum,	then one thousand others, then a second one hundred,
9	deinde usque altera mille, deinde centum;	then on continuously into one thousand others, then one hundred.
10	dein, cum milia multa fecerimus,	Then, when we have counted up many thousands,
11	conturbabimus, illa ne sciamus,	we will mix them up, lest we know that number,
12	aut ne quis malus invidere possit	or any evil one is able to envy us
13	cum tantum sciat esse basiorum.	when he knows how many kisses there were.