I- ODI ET AMO      Odi et amo. quare id faciam, fortasse requiris? (I hate and I love. Wherefore I do this, perhaps you ask?   nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior. I don't know, but I feel that happens and I'm tortured.)      II- VIVAMUS MEA LESBIA      vivamus mea Lesbia atque amemus. (Let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love   rumoresque senum severiorum and let us think all the rumours    omnes unius aestimemus assis. of the old men worth just one penny      soles occidere et redire possunt. suns are able to rise and to set   nobis cum semel occidit brevis lux, once that brief light of day fades away   nox est perpetua una dormienda. it's a neverending night we sleep      soles occidere et redire possunt. suns are able to rise and to set      da mi basia! Give me kisses!   da mi basia mille, deinde centum, give me thousands of kisses,    dein mille altera, dein secunda centum, then another hundred, then another thousand   deinde usque altera mille, deinde centum. then a second hundred, then more thousand...   dein, cum milia multa fecerimus, then when we make it thousands and thousands   conturbabimus illa, ne sciamus, till we can't count the number of kisses   aut ne quis malus inuidere possit, and so noone will be jealous of us   cum tantum sciat esse basiorum. when they know how many kisses we shared      da mi basia Give me kisses )      III- ILLE MI PAR ESSE      ille mi par esse deo videtur. (That man seems to me like a god   ille si fas est superare divos. that man, more seem to me, superior than gods   qui sedens adversus identidem who's sitting opposite you,    te spectat et audit. spectates and hears you   dulce ridentem your sweet laughter   misero quod omnes eripit sensus mihi which robs me of all feelings   nam simul te me miserable, when I look at you   Lesbia aspexi nihil est super mi Lesbia, there is no voice    vocis in ore. in my mouth   lingua sed torpet. tenuis sub artus but my tongue is numbed   flamma demanat. sonitu suopte a tender flame is burning inside of me   tintinant aures. gemina et teguntur my ears rings with sounds   lumina nocte. light has hidden in the night (?)      otium Catulle tibi molestum est. Faineance, Catullus, is your trouble   otio exsultas. nimiumque gestis. Idleness pleases you and impulses you   otium et reges prius et beatas Idleness destroyed the kings   perdidit urbes. and the flourished cities aforetime )      IV- CAELI, LESBIA NOSTRA       Caeli. Lesbia nostra. Lesbia illa. (Caelius! Our Lesbia, that Lesbia   illa Lesbia quam Catullus unam that Lesbia whom Catullus loved   plus quam se atque suos amavit omnes more than himself and his own   nunc in quadruuiis et angiportis now at backstreets and crossroads   glubit magnanimi Remi nepotes. robs the grandsons of great Remus)      V- NULLI SE DICIT MULIER MEA NUBERE MALLE      Ah mea Lesbia! (Ah, my Lesbia!   nulli se dicit mulier mea nubere my lover says to me that   malle quam mihi. there's noone else with whom she   would marry, but me, she says   non si se Iuppiter ipse petat. dicit. even if Jupiter tries to win her      sed mulier cupido quod dicit amanti but what a woman tells a desirous lover   in vento et rapida scribere oportet aqua. should be written in the wind   and in the rapid water )      ???